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Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, 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…
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, 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…
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, 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…
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
U.S. aid to India; reasons for US aid; purpose of AID; Food for Peace Program to India; U.S. wheat shipments to India; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Rodney Borum, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; Crotonville, NY; General Electric Conference; limitation of US citizens
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; positions at the Department of Labor; Task Force regarding the administration of the Landrum-Griffin Act; Labor Board; Bureau of Standards; Federal Workers
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San…
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, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; Vietnam War; Clark Clifford; Paul Nitze; Dick Helms; DeGaulle; Phil Farley; Henry Kuss; morale problems; Wriston Report; McGeorge Bundy; Christian Herter; Walt Rostow; Dean Rusk; McCarthyism; Yalta; Andrei Gomyko; Kosygin;…
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's tour in Australia; kangaroos for the ranch; LBJ's decision to retain Kennedy cabinet; press leaks; opinions of Stuart Udall; appointment to the Department of the Interior; Rebekah Johnson's relationship with LBJ; Boatner's father's death; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter Jenkins; Bobby…
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Amon Carter; 1948 and 1960 campaigns; joining Vice President Johnson
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Amon Carter; 1948 and 1960 campaigns; joining Vice President Johnson
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Roger Blough, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Steel industry price cutback; Equal Opportunity Employment Commission; Johnson
Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
VISTA Training program; Lady Bird Johnson's visit and commencement address to the first VISTA class; Office of Emergency Planning
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb
White House operations; advance trips; working for Marvin Watson and President Johnson; congressional liaison
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
The relationships between Black, LBJ and Fulbright; Black's service as advisor to LBJ on Asian Development Bank and the support of Japan, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Korea; Black's service as…
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; meetings with LBJ; BPA; confirmation; cabinet meetings; telephone conversation with LBJ regarding the riot in DC; Park Police and DC riot; March on the Pentagon; Resurrection City permit; closing down Resurrection City;…
Oral history transcript, John W. Black, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; creation of U.S. Travel Service; imbalance in travel between U.S. and foreign countries; International Travel Act; Lemoyne Billings; Executive Review of Overseas Programs; John Rooney; Mr. Gilmore; travel tax proposal; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker
[For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization of Senate…
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker
[For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization of Senate…
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
National Youth Administration
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and KTBC…
Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; LBJ's Naval Commission; Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ military service overseas; LBJ and Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Forrestal; LBJ and John Connally; Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy; LBJ investigations of Navy Department;…
Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Texas politics; LBJ's liberal tendencies; 1956 support of Shivers; Schwille case; JFK's assassination; A TEXAN LOOKS AT LYNDON; attorney for J. Evetts Haley, Jr.; statement on Johnson Presidency; Lady Bird Johnson; 3/31…
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Circumstances of going to work of Senator McFarland; first meeting with LBJ; LBJ's selection as whip; tidelands; relationship between LBJ and McFarland; 1952 campaign; LBJ's becoming leader; joining LBJ's staff; staff members; office routine; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Committee for an Effective Congress; George Aiken; biographical information; Resettlement Administration; changes in FHA; needs of rural communities; loans; social purposes of agency; American Farm Bureau Federation opposition; dissemination of…
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; first awareness of LBJ; impressions of LBJ; the Black Stars; Professor Greene; reflections on SWTSTC ; LBJ's reputation on campus; evaluation of LBJ's political skills; LBJ and Dr. Evans; recollections of other students;…
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Confrontation in Community Action Agencies, especially in Chicago, Syracuse, Philadelphia and Cleveland; Community Action Agency guidelines; political involvement in local Community Action organizations; the Green Amendment; getting community action…
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; work as a welfare department investigator; involvement in the War on Poverty and the Urban League, how Berry came to be the director of the Community Action program; early community-related programs; funding programs such as…
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit)…
Oral history transcript, Beryl A. (Mrs. Lloyd) Bentsen, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb
The Bentsens' friendship with the Johnsons; Texas politics in 1952 and 1956; 1968 Democratic Convention; Allan Shivers
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; appointment; LBJ's attitude toward staff of OST (Office of Science and Technology); functions of OST; world food, pollution and population problems; federal programs; access to BOB; State of the Union message; Commission on…
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; LBJ's message on Indian Affairs; Bennet's selection; Indian claims; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction Act; Civil Rights Act; Pueblos; equal employment for Indians; legislation for Indians; health;…
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays;…
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Political biography; meetings with President Johnson; impressions of LBJ; development of Republican Party in Oklahoma; work as Nixon's national campaign manager in 1966 and 1967; impact of LBJ's administration on state of Oklahoma