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Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; role as administrator; briefings to Cabinet on weather disasters; Department of Commerce technological activities; Herb Holloman; reorganization; Roger Revelle; Emmanuel Piore; Dr. Tom Malone; Lloyd Berkner; role of ESSA;…
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Meeting LBJ; becoming chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; duties of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Tuesday luncheons; LBJ
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 2 (II), 7/25/1985, by Charles B. MacDonald
General Harkins and his relationship with Taylor and Lodge; David Nes and pacification; assessment of ambassadors; National Libertarian Front; weaknesses of South Vietnamese forces; Westmoreland’s command arrangements; strong points of the U.S.…
Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Recent appointment history; meeting LBJ at the 1961 West Point graduation; going to Vietnam—when, why; meeting with the Johnsons and staying in the White House; becoming Chief of Staff; LBJ’s decision not to run; Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
1963 Northern Europe trip; photo session with Lady Bird in Helsinki; talking about the Finnish War; LBJ's visit with Mrs. Seppala's father; estimate of LBJ as a subject for photographs; gentlemanly qualities and courteousness of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker
Sputnik; LBJ's attitude toward military and interest in space program; drafting the Space Act; Space Council activities; communication satellite; surpassing the Soviets; VP LBJ's attendance at Council meetings; LBJ father of the manned flight…
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential…
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz
[For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George…
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
[For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George…
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 2 (II), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Head Start; Work-Study Program; Congress and the poverty program; Edith Green and the Job Corps for women; the Yarmolinsky episode; 1964 legislative submission
Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Budget Bureau position; Peace Corps involvement; War on Poverty; LBJ’s early support of the poverty program; Bill Moyers’ involvement; appointment of Shriver; task force on the War on Poverty; Community Action Program; maximum feasible…
Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; involvement with the 1941 LBJ campaign; LBJ’s speaking style; LBJ’s personality; W. Lee O’Daniel; FDR; early days of KTBC; becoming station manager; Lady Bird; LBJ’s involvement with KTBC; CBS network affiliation;…
Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1937 Congressional race; campaigning in Elgin; relations with LBJ; 1941 and 1946 Congressional races; how LBJ represented his constituents; last contact with LBJ; biographical information
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Her involvement in Texas politics; Maury Maverick; meeting LBJ; Malcolm Bardwell; Dick Kleberg; LBJ leaving Kleberg’s staff; Aubrey Williams; meeting Mrs. Johnson; LBJ early career; Dr. Walter Prescott Webb; socializing with the Johnsons; her…
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; first contact with LBJ in 1952; meetings with LBJ while he was a Senator; assisted LBJ in run for reelection; trip to Texas to estimate amount of support within Labor and Negro leadership; Swifty Davis; Hobart Taylor;…
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;” duties at Department…
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker
LBJ and anti-war demonstrators; George W. Romney; New Hampshire campaign; getting ready for the 1968 election; writing for Hubert Humphrey; the Humphrey campaign and LBJ’s role in it; Moyers leaving the staff; becoming a full-fledged LBJ staff…
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; Wattenberg’s publishing and writing career; Richard M. Scammon; meeting Bill Moyers and LBJ; being hired as a speechwriter; speechwriting process in the LBJ administration; LBJ’s young staff; working on speeches with…
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Background, first meeting with LBJ, first impression of LBJ, Northeast Texas Municipal Water District - how it was founded and started, Senate election in 1948, Election 1956, Campaigning in 1960 for presidential nomination, Campaigning in 1960 with…
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Puerto Ricans fired gun shots in the House of Representatives; LBJ's first heart attack; Election 1960; Involvement during early sixties in Texas politics; Reaction to Kennedy's assassination; Running for State Chairman; Election of 1964; Convention;…
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Nonproliferation Treaty; relations of Defense Department with Congress; comparison of McNamara and Clifford; transition; U.S.S. Liberty
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Military Assistance Program; American foreign policy; Vietnam; national security; disarmament; ABM; defense policies
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; government service; F-111; general counsel to Defense Department; tactical aircraft study; Harry Ashmore and Bill Baggs; meetings with LBJ; Pueblo Crisis; Military Assistance Program
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, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; effects of Presidential visit on Vietnam troops; infantry organization; pacification efforts; two mission of North Vietnamese Army; intelligence reports; guerilla warfare problems; Communist destruction of South Vietnamese…
Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Foreign investments in Australia; U.S. investment in Australia; President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey’s 1966 visit to Australia; Australian anti-Vietnam War demonstrators; planning LBJ’s trip to Australia; planning a Prime Minister’s…
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker
How Wallace classified LBJ’s political stances from the Senate through Presidential periods; the 1960 Presidential campaign; the Birmingham demonstrations and Wallace’s discussion with Robert F. Kennedy regarding them; Wallace’s high regard for…
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Observations of the Majority Leadership period and White House years; civil rights legislation of 1957 and 1960; LBJ’s religious views; LBJ’s generosity; The Elms; Vietnam; JFK’s assassination; Bobby Baker
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Senator Wirtz; associations with the Johnsons; travels with LBJ; impressions of LBJ; 1960 campaign and convention; vice presidency; NATO trip; LBJ and art; LBJ’s humor; Adenauer visit to the Ranch; Pakistan camel driver;…
Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb
First meeting LBJ; impressions of LBJ as a Congressman and Senator; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; rural electrification; defeated in 1946 Senate race against Nixon; Cooperative League; meeting Lady Bird; assessment of LBJ's performance as…
Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver
Views on LBJ's Congressional days; LBJ and Rayburn; Lady Bird's effect on LBJ's career; LBJ's setting up naval facilities in Texas; Vinson's leaving Congress
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker
Urban disorders; Pentagon demonstration; floating federal force; Detroit riots; Control Center-Communication Centers; riots in Chicago; Baltimore riot; Ten Blocks from the White House; Daniel Walker Report: “Rights in Conflict;” Bobby Baker’s…
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker
Safe Streets Act; Law Enforcement Assistance Office; strike force concept; organized crime section; Secret Service; counterfeiting; tunnel vision problem; FBI; “Cosa Nostra;” electronic surveillance; Title III of Omnibus Crime Control Act; Right…
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker
Father’s friendship with LBJ; first meeting LBJ; “Lawyers for Lyndon;” 1960 campaign; Inaugural Committee; Criminal Division; Bail Reform Act; President’s Crime Commission; law enforcement
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Richard Goodwin; Great Society speech; initiation of Great Society programs; major legislative acts; Everett Dirksen; Bill Moyers and his use of power; Horace Busby; Walter Jenkins; Valenti’s 'I sleep better because Lyndon Johnson is in the White…