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Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it approached from the Truman and Johnson side of the railroad tracks because I think there's more sincerity in it. He wasn't austere and parsimonious like Coolidge or anything like that. He wasn't stiff and a bit pecksniffian like Hoover. Of course
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • down--Corcoran had come down under Hoover--and the Harvard Law School had an excellent brotherhood by which people were recommended for positions. Frankfurter delegated this to Corcoran for the most part, and a regular assembly line was put up by which
Published remarks, Remarks of Lyndon B. Johnson at the Civil Rights Symposium, 12/12/72 (Item)
  • group that has suffered as cruelly as most of you have and as long as you have to feel an insecurity and a sense of injustice that is so compelling at times that you may overlook some other things. I went to Washington in President Hoover's day and I
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington, didn't quite know what I wanted to do, and thought I wanted to leave Washington. I sat around pretty much for a year or so doing very little, except that I became a member of the Hoover Commission. I was appointed by Speaker Rayburn. I think
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Then at seven o'clock, Herbert Hoover, Jr., who was then Under Secretary of State, would come down, and I would have thrown away most of it, and then we'd go through it together. At 7:30 the Vice-President, Mr. Nixon-- the then-Vice President--Mr. Nixon would
  • Biographical information; assessment of LBJ in House and Senate; Geneva Summit Conference; Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Nixon; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s heart attack; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower’s policies; nomination of Lewis Strauss and Abe Fortas
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • last month of the Hoover Administration, as part of the staff of an administrative agency called the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which was set up on a bipartisan basis mainly to keep the banks from collapsing with the help of government loans
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the project for the National Park Service. He did a great job" too. We scheduled the dedication of the garden for a fall day in 1964; however, two days before the event, former President Hoover died. For this reason, Mrs. Johnson concluded it would
Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 19 down there. He beat [inaudible] [Furnifold] Simmons in 1930. Simmons was president pro-tem of the Senate. He had been up here for thirty years, but in 1928 he joined Bishop Cannon of the Methodist Church and others in supporting Herbert Hoover
Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • have-- Taft, Wilson, Hoover, Coolidge-- L: Well, Woodrow Wilson, as I said in this piece, he was the first man who really had a press conference as of today. P: In other words, a press conference in calling the people in-- the news media in? L
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Levinson -- I -- 7 You recall that the Department of Transportation was seriously proposed back in the thirties and received added impetus through the Hoover Commission and by President Eisenhower. It wasn't until 1965 that, many years
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , it was completely unworkable . poor compromise . Like so many compromises, it was a That office was set up in 1950 as a result of, I guess the key item was the task force report to the Hoover Commission on transportation, which as I recall, I'm not sure about
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Corporation. You take, for instance, I was on the floor of the House when Herbert Hoover sent up a message mimeographed, saying, "We must have a Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the banks, railroads, and insurance companies." LaGuardia of New York
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • that when Truman became president overnight, Mr. Meyer went quickly to suggest to him that the very first job he should consider was to feed Europe - his first job. He also suggested that President Truman invite President [Herbert] Hoover to come back
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • this idea of program budget come from? Did you bring this with you? F: Well, no, the whole concept of program budgeting goes back many years. the Hoover Commission started it back in the late '40s. agencies picked it up. Actually A number of the federal
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Smith and Herbert Hoover, and as I recall now, it was in 1927. was only seven then. I But somehow it was important to us or maybe some of our people talked about it so much because we were always raised under the Catholic faith. And I would say
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • expensive as hell. for each of us. God knows what they cost Bird, but he had one He was a gadgeteer; he just loved gadgets. Like the windows that he had Hoover put in the White House so that he could lie in his bed and push a button and the windows would
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Truman, Herbert Hoover, Eisenhower on this report, but it has gone the way of many presidential commission reports. F: Forecasting is fruitless, but do you have a feeling that this is, say, like Medicare, something that over a period of decades
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • position we were in on the Faubus-Kennedy thing. As a Texan, with Johnny Lyle pushing him-­ F: Who's Johnny Lyle? C: Johnny Lyle was the congressman from Corpus Christi, and he's a nice guy. But somewhere back in the desperate talking of the Hoover
Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • started with Wilson, maybe started with Roosevelt, or with Hoover, we won't try to pin that down. But I'd be very interested in your idea of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • force report was a thoughtful way; they just said there ought to be a department of transportation. The Hoover Commission had recommended it. Eisenhower in one message recommended it, as I recall. I then had a meeting with Charlie Schultze, and Secretary
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he'd say just about what he was thinking. On reflection he could have, because--let's see, this was in the twenties, that was during Hoover's administration, and before that Harding I guess. Things were pretty conservative around. G: Did LBJ talk much
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • quite honestly that they didn't think they could vote for Kennedy. As young men at the age of thirty in 1928, they had voted for Hoover instead of Al Smith, and as older men at the age of sixty or thereabouts, they weren't able to bring themselves
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to happen like what happened under the Hoover Administration. Mr. Johnson has been, he's just been very interested in banking, and he's insistent on good examinations. That's what he wants. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY