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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : It was very ineffective at first. The major person in the White House that did have some knowledge of the Hill was Jack Martin, I. Jack Martin, who had been Senator [Robert] Taft's assistant. I have a feeling that other members of the Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XIV -- 2 within our power, the ability to break the price. Also, [Robert] McNamara was worried that we were operating with a blunderbuss. With aluminum we ought to find a more delicate, surgical way to do this. And I shared
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Evans of the Evans-[Robert] Novak column at lunch, perhaps in early or mid-1971. Rowlie asked me why Chuck Colson hated my guts. I responded that I didn't know who Chuck Colson was. The name was a name I wasn't familiar with. Rowlie said, "Of course you
Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • guess it was 1947. F: Yes, that'd be about right. L: Yes, 1947, I guess. that. I'd been assistant about a year and a half before Jatk Roberts was elected district judge, and Archer resigned. What'd I say the governor's name was? F: Jester? LBJ
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , he I guess was dealing initially with Senator [Robert] Taft and that was Senator Taft's last year. He had cancer and died. How did he work with Senator [William] Knowland as opposed to Taft? J: I've already told you that. Didn't I tell you about
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Did you have any idea t h a t he would acc ep t the vice p r e s i d e n t i a l nomination under Mr. Kennedy? H: I had no f e e l i n g about i t . I d i d n ' t give i t any thought. M: What was your opinion o f the JFK-LBJ t i c k e t ? H: Oh
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one day, "How long would it take you to teach me all you know about Roberts Rules of Order? lems on my hands." So he gave me a few lessons. I've got prob- He pointed out something I remember, he said, "Why don't you read the charter of the council
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • president to then wire each local club president in their state, asking that wires be sent to President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy urging LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have real friends around. was ever snubbed. But Johnson, I don't think Johnson I don't think anybody could have snubbed Johnson, because I just don't think he was snubbable. He once told me, for exam- ple, when De Gaulle came over when Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • know, counterinsurgency was stylish, and Brute [Victor] Krulak, the marine, had a similar position on the Joint Staff. Same one I had much later. So the army was very anxious to get in the act and do the right things, and the Kennedys were pressing hard
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • by Wilbur Cohen, whom I had known more or less casually before that because of the Kennedy campaign--I had been co-chairman of the health plank group that was organizing for the Democratic platform. We met several times in Washington and I knew Wilbur. When
Oral history transcript, John J. Corson, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of peopl e. Two peopl e who worked on the Hill supposedly informed LBJ of it, Bob Jackson and Arthur Perry, I think. Did you ever talk to them about it? C: No. G: How about Dr. Bob Montgomery, Robert Montgomery, an economics professor at the University
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • or anything, but it's a good hooker. Okay. I don't have any more to do with him that I know of. Somewhere back there in 1960, I don't know how this came about, I signed a full-page ad for the New York Times for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. The Nation's
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and weeded and worked and drafted. On the seventh of June we worked for the first time, together out in the arbor, on the draft of the speech. Of course, it was two days after Robert Kennedy had been assassinated. Mrs. Johnson commented the events of the last
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 2 (II), 9/15/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . President Kennedy asked me to do something about Cuba, that was later on, which I tried to G: do~ but never got on top of it. Now, you say Mongoose came later but that the Bay of Pigs thing was gathering momentum or whatever long before. L: Oh, yes
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of thing that he and I would talk about. He never asked my advice on policy. Hell, he had four- star generals, and had [Robert] McNamara and later--what's his name?-Clark Clifford came in as secretary of defense. that he asked for advice about policy
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • [Hubert] Humphrey, Senator [John] Kennedy announces his candidacy, and then on the Republican side, Vice President [Richard] Nixon announced his. Still no personal activity on the President's part, and you weren't aware of anything at this early stage
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 K: I suppose when they sent the bill up. M: Did you have any conversations before that? K: No. M: I believe, and please correct me if I am mistaken-- K: We were, by the way, never able to get President Kennedy's
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • can't recall this man's name? L: Oh, I'm trying to think of it, and again 1'11-- G: It wasn't Robert York? L: No, no, Bob York. is his name? No, I know him well. No. This was--oh, my God, what His wife was there and I went to dinner
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe, a businessman. There were blacks; there ~'1as one of the principal editors of Ebony magazine. It was across the board; IQrs. Robert ~lcNamara on the Council, as did economist J. Kenneth Galbraith. served LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • considering a number of people and had decided that I was the one to take the job. He said he had discussed it with no one except Mr. [Robert] McNamara, Secretary of Defense, and Mr. [James E.] Webb, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • to reinforce consent for the direction it was going in education, or--? M: I don't know. I really never visualized the presidency in the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, or Johnson years as having embraced a whole bunch of educational ideas as part of a political
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • never had any contact with him in his private [life], in his senatorial days, or so on? C: No. M: What about during the 1962 steel price difficulties with President Kennedy? To your knowledge, did Mr. Johnson get involved in that at all? LBJ
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , just about one year. My father--that was in 1919--he was teaching in Beaumont, and the war was ended. He wanted to buy the Johnson place, and he had already gotten Aunt Jessie to say she would sell her part and then if--I guess if you read [Robert
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No, that was up here in the residence of the Vice President, at that time in Washington. It was then about 1961 or 1962--I believe it was 1961. The congressmen were Ray Roberts, 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, James L. Noel, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • sat down and analyzed it, he was the one man who could complement Kennedy and perhaps bring the South around, and he just couldn't in honor turn it down as I saw it. M: Did you have any contact with him then after he was elected vice president? N
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No, I didn't. I had had very good training from [Robert] McNamara in connection with the supersonic transport in which we had cabinet members on that committee and in which he dealt very toughly with them. And I felt that I was doing what the President
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • be a Flair Annual every year. I published the first Annual - not with a staff but with two greatly gifted former members of the original team, Federico Pallavacci [Pallavicini] and Robert Offergeld. There was never another one. In the meantime I had come
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Roberts] and myself. Wednesday night was my night, and that meant I didn't have to come in until nine-thirty so I used to get my hair done on Wednesday mornings. Whenever this visit took place, I went to the hairdressers that morning because my parents
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be a combination. I believe that that is the time that Juanita Roberts gave us --no, I think she later gave us a big tea in Port Arthur. But somebody would stand up and talk after refreshments had been served, and we would tell people what they could do. They could
  • and his supporters; Lynda and Luci's whereabouts during the campaign; Lady Bird Johnson traveling around Texas attending political events and campaigning; Juanita Roberts; McCarthyism, Alger Hiss and his sister Anna Hiss; Taylor family support in East
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , when John F. Kennedy appointed Udall to his cabinet one of Udall's aides telephoned me and asked if I would come in for a job interview. I did, and right after the inauguration received another call from the aide saying, "Where are you? We're starting
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Connally was secretly helping Nixon; LBJ briefing Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace; phone communication on airplanes; a cancelled trip to Russia; transition among the staff; Stuart Udall renaming D.C. Stadium to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium; the time
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 and in Mr. Kennedy's Administration--has the force expanded too much and are we returning to smaller deployment of special forces groups? R: I don't think there has been a significant change
  • ; Detroit riots; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; cost effectiveness; role of service secretaries
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . R: Look at it. Can you think of any really outstanding New York senators? Probably the best known was • • • I don't want to take you back as far as Roscoe Conkling. In this century about the only senator who was really well known is Robert F
  • McCarthy; Civil Rights Bill of 1957; differences between Richard Russell and Strom Thurmond; Housing Act of 1955 and the Capehart Amendment; LBJ’s lack of prejudices; LBJ’s mood swings; Bobby Baker; LBJ and the Kennedys; LBJ’s relationship with the press
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the American system of government. Finally then, the election came, and when the election came of course I couldn't really vote because I was still an Irish citizen. However, then John F. Kennedy got in as president, and he as vice president. Even as vice
  • on the LBJ staff; Jim Jones; LBJ asks for communion; attending an Al Smith banquet; meeting Cardinal Cooke; LBJ and the media; Head Start in Stonewall; LBJ contributes to the Stonewall church; Archbishop Robert Lucey; CTJ and beautification in Stonewall
Oral history transcript, Emmett Shelton, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 3 And I roomed with my two cousins, Robert Shelton--he'd been down there for several years and he was assistant coach that year. He graduated in June of 1921, and they hired him as assistant coach and he stayed there as head baseball coach
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in America today, very intelligent and responsible people, who apparently have come to the conclusion that militancy and confrontation is a necessary weapon. After all, the late Robert Kennedy and Senator McGovern and a great number of highly respected
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of conversations; William Gulley’s Breaking Cover; recording in the Cabinet Room; Robert Kennedy interfering with recording; LBJ’s love of gadgetry; getting small tape recorders from Japan for LBJ; removing recording devices from the White House before Nixon came