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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, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of…
Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; San Marcos; College Star; White Stars; membership; purpose; LBJ as state NYA administrator; NYA public relations activities; staffers; structure of the NYA; projects; Herbert Henderson; working habits; later contacts with…
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Hodges’ resignation; John Connor; Sandy Trowbridge; Howard Samuels; C.R. Smith; Andrew Brimmer; Herb Holloman; Commerce internal management problems; effectiveness of Commerce Secretary; Georgetown group of Kennedy people;…
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; meeting LBJ while working for Congressman Kleberg; LBJ’s relationship with FDR, Ickes, and Alvin Wirtz; George Brown; Sid Richardson; Bob Anderson; LBJ as a congressman; LBJ’s press relations; Bobby Baker; LBJ and Coke…
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb
1941, 1948, 1954, 1960 and 1964 campaigns; Tarrant County politics; 1956 Texas Democratic fight; relationship of LBJ to local political groups
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; association with Richard Kleberg; first meeting LBJ; Roy Miller; association as a newspaperman with LBJ; LBJ’s temper; Senate race; visits during the presidency; LBJ and press criticism; W. Lee O’Daniel; LBJ as a…
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
[For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; appointment to FAA; Senators Hartke, Long, Magnuson and Monroney; flight service plan and service stations; medical department of the FAA
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
[For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; appointment to FAA; Senators Hartke, Long, Magnuson and Monroney; flight service plan and service stations; medical department of the FAA
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; 1960 visit with LBJ; Soviet wheat proposal; critic of U.S. involvement in Vietnam; 1965 meeting with LBJ; Senator Frank Church; cessation of communications between President and Senate critics; efforts to end the war; White…
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Lady Bird’s Congressional role while LBJ was overseas; first acquaintance with LBJ was social; LBJ’s interest in foreign affairs as VP; changes in Germany; JFK’s visit to Germany; LBJ should have visited Germany while…
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Foreign Relations Committee; 1966 Vietnam trip; Tonkin Gulf Incident; schools of thought regarding LBJ; succeeding JFK; dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs; investigation of chain store situation; Chicago convention
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Appropriations Committee seat; Strauss and Fortas confirmation hearings; LBJ as Majority Leader; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; 3/31 announcement; foreign relations; his wife; exchange of committee assignment with Russell…
Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; relationship with LBJ in the Senate; LBJ’s record in the Senate; race for the Governor; 1956 and 1960 conventions; contacts with LBJ during the Presidency; Commission on Violence; Joe McCarthy issue; assessment of LBJ as…
Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Recollection of Lady Bird's mother and father; recollections of Lady Bird; LBJ; Wright Patman; Deep East Texas and LBJ's campaigns; projects for the East Texas area
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Accompanying the Johnsons to Europe to take notes for a manuscript to be published under LBJ's name; LBJ's concern over the Bobby Baker episode; McDowell's impressions of each member of the Johnson family
Oral history transcript, Eugene McDermott and Margaret Milam McDermott, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1971, by David G. McComb
The McDermotts restored old courthouse at Fredericksburg and the Johnsons showed interest; Lady Bird spoke at dedication ceremonies
Oral history transcript, John McCully, interview 1 (I), 10/26/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances of going to work for the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; LBJ's initial reaction; LBJ and labor; members of the committee; positions with USIA; Department of Labor involvement with the committee; publicity;…
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; reporting from Vietnam; press in the advisory war; Diem regime; correspondents’ activities; networks of sources and information; view of Vietnam; Buddhist-Catholic strife; Hoa My; rural-urban dichotomy; factions; Nguyen…
Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker
First impressions of LBJ; close relationship with LBJ; FDR-LBJ relationship; Truman was close to LBJ; LBJ’s national outlook; LBJ’s leadership in the Senate; progressive; Board of Education meetings; bill to admit Hawaii and Alaska; minimum of…
Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Meeting LBJ; McConnell’s appointment as vice chief, and then chief, of staff of Air Force; Joint Chiefs of Staff budget conferences with LBJ; making recommendations to the President through JCS; National Security Council and Tuesday Luncheons; U.S.…
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections;…
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
How McCarthy got to know LBJ; founding the Democratic Study Group; election against Senator Edward J. Thye; committee work; the Lewis Strauss nomination; LBJ as majority leader; telephone and transportation taxes; oil depletion allowance; campaign…
Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; impressions of Johnson family; LBJ as a religious person and attending church at St. Barnabas; Lynda’s wedding; Ranch visits; opening of HemisFair; racial unrest; 3/31 announcement; appraisal of LBJ administration.
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger
1948 election and the State Democratic Executive Committee; Byron Skelton; HST and General Marshall collaborate on the Truman Committee; the 1960 convention in Los Angeles; meeting JFK at Hyannis Port after the convention; Ted Dealey insults JFK; the…
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
JFK’s 1960 meeting with the greater Houston Ministerial Alliance; LBJ’s 1966 13-state campign trip for congressional candidates and its cancellation; President LBJ’s 1966 rally in Wilminton, Delaware; techniques of advancing a motorcade and a…
Oral history transcript, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Judge Frank Culver; Sam Rayburn; LBJ; George Petty; Coke Stevenson; Dan Moody; Carter vs. Tomlinson; FDR and the New Deal
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; the 1948 campaign; campaigning for Harold Stassen; 1959 contact with LBJ on behalf of the banking industry; impressions of LBJ and his staff; supporting LBJ in 1960; Texas delegation surprised LBJ accepted vice-presidential…
Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; reorganization of division; Indian Claims Commission; Atomic Energy Commission; Roger P. Marquis; Interagency Land Acquisition Conference; Safe Streets program; Sierra Club; cancer protection; evaluation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; White House Barber Shop; visit to the Ranch; LBJ's personal thoughtfulness; 3/31 announcement; LBJ's change in hair style; White House staff members; trips with LBJ; transition
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; meeting LBJ through National Youth Administration; LBJ’s 1938 campaign for Senate and decision not to contest the loss; details of 1948 Texas Democratic Convention Executive Committee’s certification of LBJ over…
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Supporting Adlai Stevenson in the 1950’s and JFK in the early 1960’s; his work as a speech writer for LBJ in 1964 campaign; Vice President LBJ’s visit to Dominican Republic in early 1963; Dominican coup against President Juan Bosch in September…
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, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical and professional information; appointment as Associate Director of National Institute of Health and director of Division of Regional Medical Programs; problems of regional medical cooperation; 1967 decision to move Regional Medical…
Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Appointment to Presidential Advisory Council for the Office of Economic Opportunity while superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh; details of Pittsburgh’s pre-primary program in 1963-1964 (later called Head Start under OEO); composition of the OEO…
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; public educational broadcasting legislation; 1960 campaign; liaison with Eastern states; vice presidential nomination; media campaign; LBJ and JFK in New York; LBJ and television; Cuban Missile Crisis; USIA; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; JTBC AM, FM and television; 1960 presidential campaign; 1960 Democratic Convention; Communications Satellite Corporation; USIA
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; work on Credentials Committee at 1964 Democratic Convention; support for Adlai Stevenson at 1956 and 1960 Conventions; JFK’s nomination at 1960 Convention; becaming a State Dept. employee 1965; contact with Senator Robert…
Oral history transcript, Stanley Marcus, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; social relationship; selection clothes for Lady Bird; inaugural clothes; Lady Bird as a dutiful and cost conscious wife; 1965 inaugural festivities; Mrs. Angier Biddle; Lady Bird’s image; Women’s…