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Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was not taking advantage of his experience and his potential, and after a few fits and starts and all that, he resigned from the army. He went to work for Martin Marietta Corporation until--again, I don't know the exact date--but he made up his mind that he
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on--? R: Oh yes--Slick Persons and Jack Martin and the rest of the Administration--you know, the legislative liaison men were standing right outside the doors of the chamber and grabbing the Republicans as they came off and on. Fortunately, a few
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the central bankers constituted the core of everything . Bill Martin, as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and others, including the different Secretaries of the Treasury, were always involved . But that didn't cause any difficulty in political
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it all ready to go, and they slammed the gate shut on any further discussion of licenses, is the way I remembered it. He just wanted to get it judged to whether he could have the license or not, and then he would take his chances. Martin Winfrey and Tony
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • will refer to things 1ike that, "Well, you got me in a lot of trouble with your--" G: He loves to ld.d me about the time I was in trouble with Martin Dies. M: He's e.asy to be in trouble with. G: He k.ids me about my being a radical and so forth. W: G
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • legislation. Senator Brooke, Senator Percy, Senator Javits, worked very hard without any reservations, and were major factors. While people still think in terms of Dr. King's assassination as having made the passage of open housing possible, the fact
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Kleberg, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT KLEBERG, JR. INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: King Ranch Offic es, 2nd floor , Kleberg National Bank, King svill e, Texas. Tape 1 of l M: Mr. Kleberg, the first thing I would like to know is when you first met Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • be round tables. We use the ranking of dignitaries for host and hostess at round tables if it is a state visit of a foreign country the ranking guests are therefore intermingled with our ranking guests. For instance, if it was a King and Queen, the Queen
Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • them go ahead. G: Another case I'd like for you to talk about in some detail is the Con Edison case application at Storm King Mountain and what, I guess, emerged as an environmental protest in the wake of that. S: Well, you understand that coming
  • and Telephone with Western Power and Gas; the Con Edison case application at Storm King Mountain; hydropower; the emergence of the environmental movement and the FPC's response to the movement; the creation of the recreation, fish, and wildlife section
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --this will be amusing--this stuff is not really history, it's more in the area of anecdote. F: But sometimes it reveals. K: The first real substantive job I had after the assassination was a letter to King Faisal Abde1 Aziz al Saud, Saud. still of Saudi Arabia. I
  • and Pakistan with LBJ; accompanying Vice President LBJ on Middle East trip; disagreeing with LBJ; differences in how JFK and LBJ dealt with their staffs; anecdote regarding King Faisal Abdel al Saud; suggesting conversation topics for Vice-President LBJ to use
Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there Then after we ate, I'd get a taxi and go home. G: Let me ask you, I know this is going to tax your memory here, but do you recall whether or not Lyndon Johnson ever went to or met Mr. Kleberg at the King Ranch or went to that area before he took the job? H
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and liked very much, Mr. Hiram King, who was a vice president of Sinclair Oil, had written some of his friends up there to take these two young girls out. This time we were 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Johnson's financial difficulties; the relationship between LBJ and his father; LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; Mrs. Johnson's trip with LBJ to San Marcos, the King Ranch, and Corpus Christi; the Kleberg family, including Alice Gertrudis King Kleberg, Richard
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the arriving guest, and the king or queen wanted, as the case may be, to entertain, sure, that was fine, though preferably not in the evening and white tie. But an empty ceremony, in which he would have to be present for somebody else's, which was a waste
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • McGeorge Bundy, like Larry O'Brien, and certain others of them like this boy from whom I just got the letter, Bernie Boutin, who tried to run the campaign in New Hampshire [tried]. That was a letter from Bernie this morning. I think King. That was a very
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • up. Several times he's been at our house for breakfast and sobered up. G: Was he a good speaker? C: As I remember, yes. G: Was he well-liked in Johnson City, or disliked, do you recall? C: At that time, see--I'm now tal king about 1922-23
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • chief of state, for instance, let's say the King of Nepal1 s son was going to Harvard and we had him downon LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh • MARSHALL -- I -- 13 brought. I remember They were on their way down to the King Ranch. that was the first time I had seen him. Very tall, slender , quite slender , very
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • , you're quite right. I forgot that you were both in the House together. Sure you were. Start as you please. D: One of my good friends in the House was Dick Kleberg, who belonged to that King family that has the ranch down in Texas. Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and was always making circuits with the palace crowd. I got a bit of a playback from Mrs. Johnson on their meetings with the Danish royal family. The young princess who later married King Constantine of Greece was much taken with the fact that Lynda Bird
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • here, I think it was my first year, and got crazy about it. right out in the country. Ride then up Mount Bonnell Bird and Cecille and I used to ride first by ourselves and then later on--well, maybe [Hiram] King. remember riding with him, maybe we
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and Lyndon was administrative assistant for Dick Kleberg of the King Ranch, and so they kept pretty close contact there. A peculiar thing--I'm trying to think of this historian, they call him--what's the school at Canyon? West Texas [State University]? G
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the trip was cancelled, but do you remember the circumstances of it? B: No, but I do know that Admiral [Ernest] King, who was then our chief of naval operations, wanted to use Lyndon as much as he could on these kinds of things because Lyndon was good
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • too after you became acting attorney general? C: Yes, I think he relied on me while I was deputy, and somewhat even before I was deputy. Unquestionably but, you know, not as a matter of chief reliance. I remember when Dr. King visited him
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • assistant, I think, to a congressman from Texas named [Richard] Kleberg, the one who had the very big ranch. MG: The King Ranch. DG: The King Ranch, that's right. We spoke; he was a vital, impressive, emotional, exciting young fellow. I was approximately
Oral history transcript, Irwin Wolkstein, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to take over that whole operation. It was King-Anderson--I don't 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • more a part of the inner circle? SG: There you are getting--my personal view is [that] you're reaching to the same question, which is why is the relationship between the--the traditional relationship between the king and the heir presumptive
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library; Alexander Graham Bell Association Medal for the Deaf; coronation of the King of Tonga; Redwoods National Park; Presidential Conference on Natural Beauty; biographical information
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the privacy of his own thoughts, and ::1a.'Ybe even in his own office, the President would have a few salty things to say about various players on this great national stage. F: Did you ever work directly with Dr. King? H: Oh, yes. 22 LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • to me by one of my most valued fI'iends of those days Mr. Richard Kleberg, of the world-famous King Ranch. Mr. KJeberg and his family had been extraordinarily kind to me during my Summer Sessions at the college. I still remember one luncheon party
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • cigars. Edward cigars. And of course he smoked King Here again, any cigar smoker will tell you that ain't the choice of the industry. But it suited him, as long as it burned and produced smoke I guess. And the same thing with cigars. I've seen
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • their physical training instructor. Wow! Talk about King Kong. That's exactly what he looked like: King Kong. And they were out in this jungle, they were crawling over vines and wading streams, and they turned them loose for one whole week. They had to support
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . So then we sold her to the President and then the President sold her on ta king the job, and wharrmo, we announced it! M: Well, in the recent reviews of her work in the press she ' s been highly pra i sed. C: Absolutely. You ought to see her mail
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But Cousin Nat called everybody in the whole wide world his cousin. He was from deep East Texas and sort of a professional East Texan. I remember when the King and Queen, King George and Queen Elizabeth of England, came. There was a big reception--I think
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : When did he say this to you? A: While I was manager of the station. M: In the 1940s then. A: Yes, and this was up there in a casual conversation. He didn't use these words, but to paraphrase a word, he'd rather be a kingmaker than a king. [He said
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • happened was made known. of course. It is sort of a situation: Well, there were many problems, "The king is dead. long live LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the King's Royal Rifles by a special dispensation and was detailed to man the rocket guns in Hyde Park. I took along with several others there in the U.S. Mission, a course of training with the Home Guards--and qualified as a home guard component
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Which would be used, say, as in the case of the disorders that followed the assassination of Reverend King? V: That's right. B: In a case like Detroit, who from your office