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Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for the world and for the nation, for the people. going admirer of everything that he has done. I'm a thorough He's also most remarkable for the knowledge he retains of the smallest things. He is more conversant with what goes on and who's doing it in his

Oral history transcript, Willard J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and Taiwan and several other places, and they deferred the final decision on the policy until I got back in December. And I met with Dave Bell's top policy staff, and they adopted a policy in December of 1964. There was obviously conversation going

Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

interviewed Governor Allred on the prohibition question. PB: That was a long time ago. Mr. Long, your first memories of Mr. Johnson, as I understand from our previous conversation, are somewhat obscure. Do you recall just when it was you first got to know

Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

by letter and by personal conversation that he did not want to get in there and repudiate what was one of the main spokes in the foreign policy and foreign trade concepts of Jack Kennedy. debate in the Senate had started under Kennedy. a vote at that time

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

conversations with Attorney General Clark, but not those I had with the President shortly after I had succeeded-it's·a little immodest, but I suppose it's true--in securing congressional approval of the reorganization plan. Even before that, I had recommended

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Do you have any recollection of that? P: I just know that Lyndon, in talking with me, used to--it was revealed in his conversations with me, he would love to be a good athlete. He would love to be a good baseball pitcn.er. And I, in my recalling

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

by its own technical people who were more conscious of the exact details. A good deal of this, of course, was handled by negotiation directly from the Surgeon General to Rand Dixon, in conversation on the executive side with Dixon. M: It would seem

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

that was passed? W: Not directly with the President, if you mean sitting down talking this over, man to man. Of course, we'd have contacts with his staff. His main education man was Doug Cater, a good friend of mine, numerous conversations with Doug Cater

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

upset with him when he did that. As I have heard the conversation retold, Johnson just said, "Well, he's the best man qualified for it." So he selected Symington. If there were any other reasons for that other than that statement, I don't know vlhat

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

during this conversation about this year, and this seems to be as good a place as any: the Wisconsin primary became the kind of key event around which his withdrawal statement was made. Z: Only by chance, first of all, you must bear in mind-- LBJ

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

never personally was there, but I guess I was close to the conversations and the results of it. But if I remember rightly, they put that women's Job Corps center in a hotel in downtown St. Petersburg and faced the fact that those girls that enrolled

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

more doubts, he was more willing to express them. G: Was this apparent to you in conversation with him? M: Yes, absolutely. One of his basic doubts was that--I noticed it, I glanced at it this morning--one of his basic doubts, to repeat what I told

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the seniority was really in the hands of the South. You had a few western senators who were senior, but they were perfectly willing to go along with LBJ anyway. My own belief is that LBJ very early, in private conversations, started taking advantage

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

out every once in a while. That was the conversation where he made some remark about, "You ought to come over and work for me," and I said, "Well, make me an offer," and a couple of days later I was working for him. My last job for the United Press

Oral history transcript, Alfred Rosenthal, interview 1 (I), 10/29/2010, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

didn't listen in on the conversation--"Have him come over." So I then went to the Tribune, which was then on the other side of Congress Avenue, not too far from the old bus station, an old dilapidated building. They were very kind to me, but said

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into that conversation and say, "Well, there's a way you can count this where Alabama's the leader." But here were Senators Johnson from Texas, Sparkman from Alabama, and Russell from Georgia, each in his own way taking credit for the public housing program rather than

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that Mr. Truman ... ·. had gotten himself in:a ·similar committee. S: . .. No question, no question about that. He wa_s indeed interested in his . public image. And I sensed early, although I was not i.nvolved fo the conversations about

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

.•. This was essentially · the purpose of the conversion or the addition to it. It really was. They were able to get out some of the provisi~ns that would have been very troublesome to labor organizations by doing that. · . . G: Do you want to skip over.this

Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

agencies on the subject of the Nuclear Test Ban and what might be the pros and cons of resuming nuclear tests . I'm pretty sure that was the first occasion on which I met the Vice President . I don't think we had any special conversation at that time

Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

of it is that it was so long delayed . M: I see . You're speaking of the trouble Kennedy had in promoting this? Or beyond thAt? B : Even prior to that . There was There has been talk of this for a long time . conversation I remember . During the Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

what he thought this office needed. 1 ife We went to sit Now, I have to get into some of the problems that were existing at that time in order to really explain the context of the conversation with Ralph. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

read it very carefully. 1 spent about an hour going over it very carefully, word by word. 1 expected to have an extended conversation with him but just about the time we got started talking he left the office, and 1 didn't see him again for another

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the power to make He said, "If they don't do it, I can't take them out and shoot them." I'll always remember that conversation. he was saying was, "Look. So what I'll go all the way, do what I can, but remember, in the final analysis I don't have

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Civil Rights Under Law. They had a couple of representatives. And the conversation covered all of those areas, and I think some fruits were born from that. The National Bar Association developed a program--and the government later got into this area

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Danish You see, for Bulgarian you have to learn a different alphabet, and Bulgarian is a Slavic tongue, and this was quite new for me. But with Danish I really learned enough Danish that I could carry on a conversation in Danish after about a year

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and our first meeting with him. P: What were your first impressions of Lyndon Johnson? B: He was just a likeable type of fellow. with you, and he would listen to you. conversation. He seemed to make himself agreeable He wouldn't carryon all the He

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

they realized that F i n l a n d w a s just a little bit too tough a nut to crack, that there would be a lot of trouble, that there w o u l d be guerrilla warfare. In fact, S t a l i n said that once in a conversation with Churchill. said, "You cannot but a d

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

something about him in the paper; that they still kept in kind of a loose touch with each other. W: Yes, I can understand that because they both spoke very cordially of each other in all the times their names were introduced into a conversation. F: You

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh M. Winters -- III -- 5 W: He knew it was going to be tough. G: Right. You recall any conversations with him in particular? W: No. G: Okay. W: The incident that I remember very distinctively over

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was presumably separately working on this--but John Macy is head of the Civil Service Commission. W: That's correct. John and I talked about this at a time when we were having lunch together. He brought it up in context of another conversation, and Roger Jones

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that it were worth building a plane that could fly supersonically only over water. F: I presume that President Johnson took a fairly active interest in what this committee was doing. C: He did. I am not privy to McNamara's conversations with him when I