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Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

will have the opportunity to review the transcript . To take up where we left off, there were other urban disorders in the aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, here in Washington and in Chicago . C: Did you get directly involved in any
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

some cooling effect on city problems. G: Earlier in this interview I asked you about the impact of the Vietnam War, particularly in terms of OEO expenditures and the budget. In April of 1967 Martin Luther King in a speech--critical speech in terms
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

wouldn't bother them . You know, somebody told me something once about Martin Luther King ; a fellow who was a friend of his said Martin was a revolutionary, that he scared people to death because he acted as if he thought the Constitution meant what

Oral history transcript, A. Phillip Randolph, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Wilkins [of the NAACP]; Mr. Whitney Young, Jr., National Director of the National Urban League; Walter Reuther, President of the UAW;-- B: Would Dr. King have been there? R: Dr. [Martin Luther] King, Jr., was there, and a number of others--I don't

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Luther King? Were you involved in that from the beginning, that is, from the moment of the assassination, the investigation and so on? V: Yes, there were two divisions here that were involved really. Division and the Civil Rights Division
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Secretary McGif fert 32,33,37 March on the Pentagon 33-36 Analysis of the M-16 rifle 38,39 Controling police type organizations during civil disturbances. 41,42 April disorders after Martin Luther King's death Tape 112: 1-5 April riots after Martin

Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

)] Conner and (Martin Luther] King [Jr.], it had the country much more in a turmoil than Oxford. You didn't know what you were trying to do. I mean, that was one of the problems--that there were no clear objectives anywhere and you didn't know what they were

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; Martin Luther King’s death and LBJ’s view of King; LBJ on civil rights; open housing bill; trip to Chicago 4/1/68; the idea of moving the Democratic National Convention from Chicago; Chicago’s Mayor

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to the skies with everyone and making major figures out of them. When they get off that frequency, there are tremendous--as Martin Luther King would say--jangling discords. There's a tremendous fall from that intense relationship. B: Are you saying that Mr

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

on the heels of that came, within a week, the assassination of Martin Luther King and the riots in Washington. March. Then the Poor Peoples' Then, of course, the assassination of Senator Kennedy. P: You must have had a continuous high volume of mail

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. [Martin pressure years and they ''Well the remand it were the same and And it would take forever else. Luther] on this the facts and So, this, King's coupled in with march at Selma and focus on it really required That was what we came up

Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)

he was raised. After that, in 1916, his nephew, Tom Martin, was elected to the House of Representatives in Texas. was a vacancy. In 1917 he quit and joined the army and there Ferguson was governor at this time. He gave Sam Johnson, Lyndon's dad

Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of understanding. Obviously, riots in our cities and the tragic assassination of l'lartin luther King, and so forth, do cause problems. cern, just as it does here in this country. M: It's natural. But you think the leadership in the African states pretty well

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. P: This is the Kleberg of the King Ranch family, right? H: That's right. He's now deceased. And he was the playboy member of the family, but one of the most delightful persons personally you'd ever want to meet, socially marvelous. P: What

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, 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, 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, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (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, 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, 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

Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)

tied in -H ere your programs ·. i ' }vl th the rest of the of f ice programs and with the depar~1n. e'nt of HEW at that ti me ? 11 ,,.I JI DR. HARRIS: We were \'TO r ) king part i cu. 1ar1 y c 1 o s 0. l y .. ) 'f !~ with the Depart

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

months later in a word or a deed, And, of course, with Mr. Rayburn, he was king. Mr. Rayburn was so much Mr. Speaker and so many gifts flowed from Mr. Rayburn that when he was around, nobody took over the conversation. F: When he started campaigning

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

also, that a minimum wage law in that small industry would not be easy to achieve. The king of the pecan merchants came to see me a few weeks later and brought his secretary along--probably to make a record of what I said and what the king of pecan

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did you come to be appointed Postmaster? Q: Ivell, I got mixed up in politics in the campaign of Dick Kleberg, that's east of Dallas. Good farmland. the King Ranch, in a special election that he was running in for Congress representing

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and had just started seeing people again. The King of Jordan was in town at the same time, which also might have been a factor. I was supposed to see Nasser. He left the day that I suspect that, knowing Nasser, that if he had wanted to see me and he

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

,there \-1aS quite a l~t of speech I"fI.3.king and talking,. and Pap. Avery brought the house dO'/In \ihen he said" J'~Touldnft it have been a helluva hardship on the country if I'd been elected!" PB :Nm'i to pick up your story chronologically" fiIr

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Quill -- I -- 2 King Ranch, he kind of handled the social end of the Congress and Lyndon did all the heavy lifting, all the hard work. G: What were you doing there? Q: I was Chief Deputy County Clerk. I was at the stockyard

Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

and I knew Arthur Perry, and I knew who Lyndon Johnson was because he had been teaching school in South Texas and had worked for the Kings and the Klebergs for a year or so on different matters. He was very much interested in the campaign of Dick

Oral history transcript, Gould Lincoln, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

at that time about Dr. King's warning of race riots, if Washington, D.C. didn't 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, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

. -- -,','ho, if I ."' t 1he - bova _ Lis, 41>1d oa tlae V1.40r, I !-UlOW h;.: i,aas oiten xp in offlee t-al,king -:vita Sm about our progrann im-portant throughout thij peric.),d 7 z"~e wia a m,_~.mber of the Advi3ory Council, -wag lie not'? Yes

Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

my wife and me to come to Washington to a State dinner for the King and Queen of Nepal. This was about the first of November, if I remember right, of last year, 1967, and I assumed quite rightly that this was the first way of giving me an excuse

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. It reminds me of the lines from Idylls of the King, the one called "Arthur and Modred." One day, as Tennyson relates it, Arthur and Modred were playing on the sand, and Modred built a sand castle, and Arthur kicked it away, and Tennyson says, "And ever after

Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 them. Then when I was elected to the Senate, Key Pittman of Nevada and Will King of Utah, two Senators, said that the southwestern part of the United States had never been represented