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Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil…
Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb
Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; day of JFK's assassination; Jim Jones; Marvin Watson; 1968 campaign; Marty Hauan; Will Sparks; DNC; George Christian; Mike Monroney, Jr.; advance work and trips to Honolulu and Huntington, West Virginia; Whitney Shoemaker;…
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker
First meeting with LBJ in Congress; LBJ more of a man's man than JFK; LBJ's address to American Society of Newspaper Editors; LBJ's acceptance of VP; 1960's Mississippi racial atmosphere; armed himself; Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi; activities of the…
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Kennedy Task Force; comprehensive community action program; Sargent Shriver; Shriver Task Force; legislation; VISTA; drafting the bill; resident participation; planning and operation problems; regional planning; political power; Moynihan; Job Corps;…
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Sam Rayburn; Comptroller; career; Senator Couzens and Ford Auto Company; Roosevelt bank moratorium; commissioned as examiner; bank examination facets; FDIC; money deposits overseas; banking crisis; "Eurodollar;" secrecy…
Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; 1948 state convention; State Executive Committee and certification of LBJ as a candidate in 1948
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, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; first coverage of LBJ in 1946; personal evaluations of various Texas Capitol Press reporters; Stuart Long; reporters' preference for candidates at the time; LBJ's 1948 campaign for Senate; the helicopter; on the road with…
Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; admiration of Rayburn; women in South for VP Johnson; Paul Butler; Democratic Advisory Councilom 1948, 1960, 1968 campaigns and conventions; Southern train trip; Mrs. Johnson as a campaigner;…
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; 1941 Senate campaign; 1948 Senate campaign; Latin vote; litigation over 1948 contest; LBJ campaign and political techniques; 1956 campaign; Ralph Yarborough; 1960 campaign and convention; vice presidency;…
Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Johnson as Congressman, Senator and Congressional Secretary
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker
Medical training; first association with White House; President Eisenhower; General Snyder; Dr. Tkach; Kenneth O'Donnell; Dr. Janet Travell; Dr. Eugene Cohen; Dr. Pep Wade; Dr. Hans Kraus; events in Dallas; campaign travel with LBJ; Dr. Cain; Dr.…
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Architect of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill firm; appointment to Commission on Fine Arts, 1963; Hirshhorn Museum; Johnson's interest in the arts; planning of Johnson Library; day at the Ranch; Truman Library; UT budget decisions; impressions of LBJ and…
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Detailed account of U.S. participation in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Detailed account of U.S. participation in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Detailed account of U.S. participation in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb
Relationship with LBJ in Congressman Kleberg's office in 1933; airline regulations; LBJ's election to Congress in 1937; Senate campaign in 1941 and 1948; 1956 Democratic Convention; 1960 campaign with JFK; influence of Lady Bird Johnson on LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Democratic politics; contacts with LBJ; campaign fund raising; Johnson's organization on the state level; low income housing
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Policy Planning Council; short-circuiting channels of communication; October 1966 trade speech; Ludwig Erhard; Harmel Exercise; Vietnam; foreign policy brain trust for Humphrey; Abe Fortas; Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Political career background; 1960 National Convention and presidential campaign; Cuban refugee problem in Florida; Bay of Pigs incident; 1964 Freedom Riders; Office of Emergency Planning; 1966 trip to Asia with LBJ
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker
First acquaintance with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Jean Monnet; DeGaulle; Common Market; Wilson; MacMillan; MLF Force; Skybolt; Atlantic Naval Force; Rhodesian independence; Great British trade policy; assistance of Great Britain with VN settlement; Tonkin…
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Capitol Hill's reception of VA; first meeting with LBJ; formation of HUD; consumer orientation of FHA; original purposes of FHA; change in purpose; operation under spending limitation; loan processing charges; VA point…
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
National Youth Administration; Aubrey Williams; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1934 Georgetown Law School days; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress; Huey Long's address at Little Congress; LBJ's belief in loyalty - party, national, personal; constituents in his early career in Kleberg's office; LBJ's idea of professional…
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Jesse Jones; Charles Marshall; Alvin Wirtz; LCAR; LBJ's personality; war years; LBJ and business; vice presidency; presidency; Vietnam; the Great Society; education; retirement; Lady Bird Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
RFK; support of McCarthy; LBJ
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Background with AFL; state legislation and LBJ's campaigns; Taft-Hartley Act; LBJ's role in labor movement; Johnson-Yarborough Senate relationship; LBJ's involvement in Texas labor matters; vocational education system
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Marshall Ford Dam; 1941 and 1948 Senate campaigns; common interests with LBJ; helping district and public education; heart attack; 1960 campaign; LBJ's presidency
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, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; Livermore Laboratories; LBJ relationship; space program; 1967 budget; anti-ballistic missile system; LBJ's White House staff; future weapons systems
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; not active in partisan politics; Indian food crisis; PL 480; self-help concept; differences with AID on emphasis of priority; operating under State Department's budget; improvement of Vietnamese agriculture; defoliants; work…
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1968, by Paul Bolton
Biographical information; association with LBJ; LCRA; Alvin Wirtz; Charles Marsh; Jim West; Wesley West; social problems and reform; LBJ's heart attack; Brown & Root
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
State legislature and law school background; job for LBJ in his 1941 campaign; early days as a U.S. Congressman and as a part of a minority party;
Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; setting up NYA offices; residence programs; staff meetings; NYA visitors; personnel; LBJ techniques; political aspirations; publicity; roadside parks; school projects; 1937 Congressional race; 1941 Senate race
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; impressions of LBJ when he was majority leader; covering the Democratic National Convention in 1960; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; David Ladd; J. Herbert Holloman; Secretary Hodges; Bill Eaton; appointment as Commissioner; morale problems within the department; minority hiring; new facilities; international law; need for international system of…
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; CAB appointment; Northeastern Airlines decisions; air congestion and stacking over airports; role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation; contact with Vice President Johnson; maritime strike; establishment of…