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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; organized labor's view of Senator Johnson; initiatiing new labor view in Texas; CWA; local union; union at the nation level; 1968 Chicago telephon strike before convention; 1960 campaign/convention; LBJ's effectiveness as…
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb
Peabody’s views of the JFK/LBJ ticket and his part in the campaign; casual meetings with LBJ and the Kennedys, their differences of opinion on various matters; description of differences in JFK, RFK, and LBJ campaign techniques; Lawrence…
Oral history transcript, W. True Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb
Discusses the selection of LBJ as VP in 1960; his appointments; Inter-American Development Bank
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
The Grand Teton trips; Appalachian trip; New England trip; the Crossroads trip;
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; Bureau of the Census; Lou Harris; Luther Hodges; 1960 census; invasion of privacy; survey techniques; Select Commission on Western Hemisphere Immigration; President’s Commission on Registration and Voting Participation;…
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; early support of and work toward a transportation department; recollections of Najeeb Halaby; LBJ assumes presidency; Alan Boyd and others involved in development of DOT; opposition to DOT by FAA and McKee; Dean's…
Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; association with LBJ; John Gronouski; Poland foreign policy; policy of building bridges to the East; Battle Acts; most-favored nation treatment; Chinese Communists; Warsaw; Averell Harriman; Foreign Service officers'…
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; reacting to LBJ nomination for vice presidency in 1960; LBJ seeks to retain influence in the Senate in 1961; Pell-JFK relationship; LBJ-JFK relationship; LBJ and the Eastern Establishment; recommends German policy to LBJ;…
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
(With occasional comments by his wife, Jim Grant Bolling) Biographical information; Sam Rayburn; Bolling
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 11 (XI), 2/27/1969, by T.H. Baker
The importance of maintaining a high moral standard; proposed revision of the Administrative Procedure Act; Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) strategies to delay or expedite action to accomplish their intended goals; how to get a viewpoint heard and…
Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
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…
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
[For interview 2 and 3] 1960 election and campaign; JFK administration; LBJ administration’s domestic and foreign policies and programs; Vietnam; postal service; powerful figures in Congress; reasons for LBJ’s decline in popularity.
Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; Joe Kresahw; Leon Gilgoff; Sargent Shriver; RPP&E program; OEO budgetary process; 5 Years Plans; Congressional understanding of the OEO; budget allocations recommendations; Community Action Program; Jobs; Moynihan; Green…
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; birth; education; legislative service and experience; military service; writing and editorship; political activities (Adlai Stevenson campaign); Sam Rayburn; Hale Boggs; biography of Sam Rayburn; teaching; relationship with…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker
Department of Justice history and its role as legal advisor to the president through the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC); laws created in the executive branch, such as through executive order, presidential proclamations and executive agreements;…
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb
Activities as Manpower Administrator; the Department of Labor; OEO; NAB; proposed reorganization of the Department of Labor in 1968
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Comparison of service as Executive Director for the U.S., International Monetary Fund in JFK and LBJ administrations; LBJ policy to draw eastern bloc states of communist countries into IMF; duties of IMF position; role and actions of "Deming Group"…
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; National Park Service
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker
the relationships between the federal government, state and local governments, and private enterprise; the changing role of states and the federal government in interstate compacts; federal participation in interstate compacts; air and water…
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; association with LBJ; Rayburn; Board of Education meetings; impression of LBJ; political reputation and closest associates; relationships of LBJ with FDR, Eisenhower and Truman; NYA; wartime price control legislation;…
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker
Career; Civil Rights Bill of 1964; first meeting LBJ; contacts with LBJ; change in opinion about LBJ; contact with White House through Douglass Cater; cut-off of federal funds; Directorship of the Office of Civil Rights; school guidelines; Title VI…
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Higher Education Act of 1965; HEW; Labor & HEW conflict; reorganization; HEW governing by Gardner and Cohen; relationship with White House Staff; Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; Presidential staff relations;…
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; Community Action; LBJ and the poverty program; Sargent Shriver; the Yarmolinsky episode; Baker's responsibilities; the Employment Service; Head Start Program; OEO's mission and future; Legal Services program; 1967 riots; the…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 6 (VI), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker
a 1966 interdepartmental conference on proposed legislation to establish a fishery zone beyond the three-mile territorial seas limit; Bureau of the Budget's role in uniting the positions of various departments; the Department of the Navy, State…
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker
Wozencraft's work on a study group related to the revision of international treaty laws; the 1968 United Nations (UN) Conference on the Law of Treaties negotiations over how treaties should be invalidated and terminated; concern that proposed…
Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Early government positions Paul held before becoming Assistant Secretary of Defense; his views of LBJ’s decisions relating to Vietnam; availability and suitability of various planes and equipment; budgetary items; training of personnel; military…
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Background to joining the Department of Commerce; Circumstances that led to his selection as the first Acting Secretary; disadvantages of being “acting;” idea of merging the Department of Labor and Commerce into the…
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; early contact with LBJ; Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs; East-West Center; Washington riots; Foreign policy implications of education and cultural exchange; Mutual Education and…
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; 1948, 1956 and 1960 conventions; 1964 campaign; LBJ as VP; UT administration; 3/31 announcement; relationship with Truman and LBJ
Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
[For interviews 1 and 2] JFK campaign in West Virginia; decline of coal use after WWII; unemployment; national press on Appalachia; Mike Feldman; Ted Sorenson; Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; public law 89-4 in 1965; Highway System first authority vested in…
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Becoming personal secretary; LBJ’s personal interest in employees; Bobby Baker; characterizing Johnson family members; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ’s acceptance as VP; campaign; LBJ as VP; duties as Lady Bird’s secretary; traveling with Lady…
Oral history transcript, Louis F. Walter, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ's father and grandfather; early remembrances of Gillespie County; move of county seat to Johnson City; 1904 meeting with Sam Ealy Johnson of Austin; first awareness of LBJ while he was Congressman;…
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker
Evaluation of LBJ; LBJ’s knowledge of, and interest in, the cattle business; government program to purchase surplus beef during the cattle crisis; transition from Kennedy to LBJ administration; shepherding bills through Congress and keeping LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb
Vietnam; 6% surcharge; Wilbur Mills; Emile VanLennap; Chairman Mahon; IRS; Sheldon Cohen; Stan Surrey; Henry Ford; Sidney Weinberg; gold rush; financing difficulty; Paul Volcker; Ed Snyder; Heller-Pechman plan; Presidential press conference
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb
Appointment and confirmation to the ICC; Charles Webb; farm co-op cases; structure of ICC; regulation; record disposal; appeals to board of suspension; determination of rates/fair profit; merger cases; LBJ's appointment of Virginia Mae Brown; work…
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Evaluation of the situation in Vietnam in 1963; the problem with guessing how JFK would have responded to issues LBJ faced in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic; JFK's and LBJ's sensitivity to military opinion and the advice they were given;…