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Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • but hadn't attended, you know. of any older organization. attend. That's typical There's a lot of members that don't He got them out, a lot of them, enough to be elected. G: What else did he talk about that day? W: Well, at that times Herbert Hoover
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: SAM HOUSTON JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: The Alamo Hotel, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 2 J: "Years later, when I was on Johnson's staff, Sam Houston felt only irritation when the Majority Leader was hailed in newspapers
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 13, 15 July 1978," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Foundation Award Committee: Harry McPherson, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard and McPher on; Miss Linda Howard, Professor, Ohio State University; Dr. William J. McGill, President of Columbia University; Mrs. Johnson; Arthur Krim, Chairman of the Board, Orion
Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • question that future scholars are going to note and would probably wonder at the omission. During Robert Kennedy's tenure as Attorney General, there was a rather well publicized dispute between him and J. Edgar Hoover over electronics surveillance. E
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they might have been good intelligence gatherers, but because it would really blow the project. You did have terribly suspicious political leaders in the foreign countries j if suddenly a hundr~d, two hundred, road surveyors [arrived] like on the Ghana
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • B. JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Casa Leonor, Acapulco More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape 1 of 3 J: Early February of 1942 found me settled in Washington, Lyndon gone
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . MG: What were his skills? G: I think that's probably pretty difficult, for me to answer anyhow. I would rank him with [J. William] Fulbright and [Everett] Dirksen, and of course, if you look at who taught him with politics, Sam Rayburn. Why
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • dared to have killed them. B: Sometime just shortly after that, apparently President Johnson sort of built a fire under J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover came to Mississippi and talked to Governor 17 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; work on minimum wage; the Neshoba County deaths; Council of Federated Organizations movement; FBI opens new office in Mississippi; RFK, Hoover and LBJ told FBI to get on the job in Mississippi; Freedom Democratic Party
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • case it marked my next involvement with Walker, because I got a call from Jack [Herbert J.] Miller, as I recall, who was then the assistant attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division, and someone whose name I don't recall who was one of Bobby
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • scheduled to see the President if he did not know them personally and those that were invited to functions of the White House. The last category was handled over the telephone with Deke DeLoach, Mr. [J. Edgar] Hoover's assistant. It was not unusual for us
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • called Nick Katzenbach; I called J. Edgar Hoover--two of them, Katzenbach and Hoover, because I had had indication from Moyers that it would be a good idea to get in touch with them and get their advice. I assumed from the way he put it that he'd
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : SHERWIN J. t·1ARKMAN INTERVIEWEE: INTERVIHJER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENY PLACE: Mr. Markman's office, 815 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 600, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 Mc: This interview is with Sherwin Narkman, Assistant to the President from 1966
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  • Markman, Sherwin J., 1929-
  • Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
  • Sherwin J. Markman
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was J. Edgar Hoover and Bobby must have authorized it. It was harmful. I believe it probably was the [Drew] Pearson columns. We were persuaded this was planted and most unfairly presented to harm to Bobby. G: Did you see Hoover behind it or Johnson
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • whether they're solvent. Not all of them are solvent. But they're keeping most of them in business, and that, incidentally, was said to have been Garner's idea, which he got from President [Herbert] Hoover. And they had to sell Roosevelt on this idea
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • suppose this is subjective rather than factual--that J. Edgar Hoover did poison the well there? A: Yes, absolutely, there's no question about it. And it was sinful that he did. F: On purpose? A: I don't know. For whatever reason, he
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • even a whimper about my political life at that time. It's the height of McCarthyism. And I had been pretty outspoken, you know. I hated the House Un-American Activities Committee. I hated McCarthyism. I hated J. Edgar Hoover, who was just an anathema
  • Faulk’s boarders, Mr. And Mrs. John Talley; how Faulk came to know of LBJ; J. Frank Dobie; Nazi Germany; racism; Faulk’s father; Faulk’s experience with black people; John Connally; LBJ’s career in the 1950s; 1956 Presidential election; meeting LBJ
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins and Alice Hopkins, interview 4 (IV), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you want it moved from one district to another? W: Well, as I recall, [Joseph J.] Mansfield's district was up for revision at the same time. Gonzales County was in Mansfield's dis- trict and I was taking it out and wanting to put it into Kleberg's
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • everything. role. I had a. feeling that J. Edgar Hoover played a large I had a feeling that J. Edgar, who hated Bobby, was doing what he could to be sure that the President was convinced that there was a Kennedy conspiracy. I think every little action
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • president, the former president and now a statesman . F: Our former friend . J-9 : No, he's not a former friend because he's still my friend . He and his wife have been my friends for a long time and I've been their friend . In fact, Lady Bird has
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 2 (II), 7/9/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was that he had that goddamned sewer J. Edgar Hoover flowing across his desk all through those five years. Like many extremely skillful politicians, he had a weakness for under-the-rug information. [German Chancellor Konrad] Adenauer was another great
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • state in America As long as Senator McCarren was alive, and he controlled J. Edgar Hoover, they didn't have any problem. But once McCarren died, they had a big problem about trying to close down their biggest industry, which was tourism
Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , in a sense, incendiary on a national basis? P: Yes. F: That we were teetering a bit? P: Yes, J. Edgar Hoover, one of the first witnesses, said that they were unable to find any area of conspiracy in the civil disorders of Detroit and Newark
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or he drinks too much or something like that. It's true, but good taste says, "Keep it." F: Right. N: For 1imited eyes for a whi le at least. letters with J. Edgar Hoover. but some may be signficant. Or it may be an exchange of Some of them
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Internal Security [Sub]committee. Here was a committee that [J. Edgar] Hoover used; when he couldn't get somebody investigated on his own, he would use that committee to investigate people. Olin Johnston was a member of that committee, Senator [Patrick
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of April [1965] the President removed the previous commander, Colonel [George J.] McNally, who had been in the White House since World War II. McNally was a former member of the Secret Service and had been transferred into this duty in telecommunications
  • How General Albright came to work for LBJ; Colonel George J. McNally; telephone system and security; functions of the White House Communications Agency; the teleprompter; LBJ’s lighting and background requirements for public appearances; problems
Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • hO~-J he stood either on Taft-Hartley or some other bi 11. CG: That's not what I remember. He went to Washington and made some more or less formal statement about the Taft-Hartley keeping it or repealing it. either Act~ I don't know what side
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . tough j ob. He said, " It's a tough, It means you have to work full -time, you have to be on the floor full-time, and you have to go around and do the little housekeeping chores that nobody e l se would do them." •~as prepared to do . And he
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and shame-faced as we were to be very much more so in the next decade, because the Democrats had just sort of chewed up Hoover, over and over, from--when was it, 1930? G: 1932. J: --that first race of Roosevelt, 1932, beginning then and on for twenty
  • Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • gather, felt that Hoover had been abused and had not been treated fairly after his presidency. Do you recall that? Did he ever talk about that? J: That's the only evidence that I've come across of it. I know that Lyndon lived to flinch at his own
  • at KTBC; attending the State of the Union Message; 1947 legislative issues; Aunt Effie's estate; President Truman sending Herbert Hoover to Europe to study food and fuel shortages; Mrs. Johnson's pregnancy; the backyard and garden at the 30th Place house
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • DATE: November 15, 1981 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas Tape 1 of 1 J: The first of the year, as I have said, was always a series of celebrations of Speaker Sam Rayburn's
  • ; the relationship between LBJ and Richard Russell; Robert Taft; tidelands controversy; Felix Longoria's burial; a letter from Herbert Hoover to Harry Truman regarding Hoover's public service; buying souvenir pieces of the White House during its renovation; Paul
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 55, 1 June 1993," LBJ Library (Item)
  • the White House and to M. C. barbecueson the banksof the Pedernates. In April, the Libraryrealized a long-standinghope by offering "An Evening with Cactus Pryor" to a crowdedauditorium. The veteran performersang, did a vivid impersonationof the fabled J
Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • his assistant, more or less. He handled a lot of things for the Chief Justice while the Chief was directing it. This general counsel [J. Lee Rankin], who was a member of the commission, phoned me one Saturday afternoon saying that "our friend wants
  • the Nuremberg trial; Storey’s work on the Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Route; Storey’s work on a President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice; his acquaintance with the Kennedys and Herbert Hoover.
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - December 1952 DATE: March 29, 1982 INTERVIEWEE: LADY BIRD JOHNSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Johnson's apartment, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 J: October of 1952 saw the campaign, such as it was, get into full sway. There were
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. HOPKINS INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER National Archives Conference Room, Washington, D.C. PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, I know that you came to the White House in 1931, in October I believe, and have been there since. Could you
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  • Hopkins, William J., 1910-2004
  • Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker
  • William J. Hopkins
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 54, 1 February 1993," LBJ Library (Item)
  • a Christmas season program entitled ''Twentieth Century Song Book: A Musical Celebration.'' Coming Events February 13-April 18: An exhibition of Mexican Prints. February 22: Richard Norton Smith, Director of the Herbert Hoover Library, will discuss George