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Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; career; meeting with LBJ; Trust Territory; U.S. relationship with Eastern European countries; NATO; MLF; Vietnam War; Arthur Goldberg; Middle East crisis; Dean Rusk; women as diplomats; trip to VN; 1968 campaign; Johnson…
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; career; meeting with LBJ; Trust Territory; U.S. relationship with Eastern European countries; NATO; MLF; Vietnam War; Arthur Goldberg; Middle East crisis; Dean Rusk; women as diplomats; trip to VN; 1968 campaign; Johnson…
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee at…
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker
LBJ as a congressman; civil rights as an issue in Virginia; the 1960 Democratic Convention and the selection of LBJ as a candidate for VP; Senator Harry Byrd; JFK as President
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Personal relationship with LBJ; LBJ and his family; LBJ as a young boy and relationship with his parents; early relationship with Alvin Wirtz; Allison's first meeting with Lady Bird; memory of Lady Bird as very shy; days at the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; Washington politics; Vice President Charles Curtis; meeting LBJ in NYA; court packing; LBJ in 1938 election; Allen and Drew Pearson; Senator Kerr; LBJ as Senate leader; Bobby Baker; Hubert Humphrey as whip; comparison of LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker
Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America…
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; assassination; blacks in the State Department; civil rights progress; White House staff; LBJ and civil rights; administrative agencies; other duties; obstacles; White House Conference on Civil Rights; surveys of…
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; assassination; blacks in the State Department; civil rights progress; White House staff; LBJ and civil rights; administrative agencies; other duties; obstacles; White House Conference on Civil Rights; surveys of…
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; assassination; blacks in the State Department; civil rights progress; White House staff; LBJ and civil rights; administrative agencies; other duties; obstacles; White House Conference on Civil Rights; surveys of…
Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; approach and success as Ohio State University president; first acquaintance with Sargent Shriver; circumstances of working with Job Corps planning task force; reason for his selection; various other members; degree of…
Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Work with Mrs. Johnson on THE LIVING WHITE HOUSE; text/pictures formula; approval of final copy; criticism of the book; Mrs. Johnson's party when Melville Grosvenor presented the book to her; Liz Carpenter's relationship with Mrs. Johnson and…
Oral history transcript, James Adler, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Position in government during War on Poverty; Appalachian program; Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger
Adams' work for the CIA in Vietnam in 1965; identifying the enemy in Vietnam; self-defense and secret self-defense militiamen in Vietnam; Adams' involvement in Special National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67: altered statistics reporting troop numbers…
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Start of involvement in politics with Democratic Party; entertaining in 1964 campaign; appearance with LBJ at Austin rally; suspicion that Hubert Humphrey's campaign was sabotaged; song selection for the different rallies; White House invitations;…
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution;…
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Monetary policy, 1966-1968; tax increase discussions; Bill Martin; relationships of CEA with Federal Reserve System, Bureau of the Budget and Treasury; Wright Patman; Arthur Burns; LBJ's understanding of macro-economics; Vietnam; War on Poverty;…
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
Contact with LBJ; assassination; tax issues; Wilbur Mills; comparing JFK and LBJ; CEA; War on Poverty; committee on Economic Impact of Defense and Disarmament; procedures; agriculture issues; 1964 campaign; Walter Heller; Wright Patman; LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan
LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press…
Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater
Group interview with Texas newspapermen and long-time political supporters of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
First impressions of LBJ; JFK and LBJ; JFK and the White House staff; LBJ as VP; LBJ on foreign aid; LBJ Berlin speech, 1961; LBJ on foreign policy pre-presidency; LBJ’s first State of the Union message; Vietnam; CIAP; Latin America; White House…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
The prospect in 1955 of LBJ being a candidate for the presidency; Amon Carter and LBJ's relationship with Carter; John Henry Faulk; LBJ's 1955 heart attack; humorous story regarding suits a tailor was making for LBJ at the time of his heart attack;…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton
LBJ's January 1956 return to Congress following his heart attack; Jesse Kellam; the Johnsons' interest in sports; KTBC's success; criticism of LBJ; President Eisenhower's February 1956 announcement that he would run for re-election; the table Frank…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Activities during the summer of 1947 leading up to Luci Johnson's birth; riding on the Sequoia with Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and friends; LBJ's interest in national defense and U.S. relations with the Soviet Union; Luci's birth; the…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
The back porch and yard of the Johnsons' Washington, D.C. home in 1943; Aunt Effie Pattillo's visits to Washington, D.C., her personality and her friendship with LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; Jesse Kellam joining the navy; the end of the National…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Questions in 1940 about whether Franklin Roosevelt would run for a third presidential term; the Marshall Ford Dam; social activities in Washington, D.C. in 1940; the death of LBJ's uncle, George Desha Johnson; Rebekah Johnson's 1940 visit to…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton
Lady Bird Johnson's father's decline in health and death; story of Lady Bird Johnson's mother building up Mr. Taylor's health and physique early in their marriage; Mrs. Johnson's role in the 1960 presidential campaign; public speaking; Mrs. Johnson's…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette
Social events of the 1950s; Senator Theodore Francis Green; Sam Rayburn; Senator Walter George; Herbert Hoover; Lady Bird Johnson's miscarriages in 1954; the political situation in Vietnam in 1954; the Texas governor's race between Allan Shivers and…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Activities and volunteer work in the spring of 1953; dinner parties and socializing with Washington, D.C. friends; a party the Johnsons threw at the Carlton Hotel; Mamie Eisenhower; LBJ's political career in 1953; the early stages of public…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
The Johnson family's home in San Marcos; what Lady Bird Johnson thought of LBJ's early career prospects; LBJ's response to a job offer from Charles Marsh; LBJ's ability to remember names; Mrs. Johnson's reluctance to marry LBJ; the weeks leading up…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson's June 1934 trip to New York City with Cecille Harrison; receiving LBJ's name and contact information from Gene Boehringer; touring New York City; traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Johnson's impressions of…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson's social life in Marshall and Jefferson, Texas; Jay Gould's efforts to bring the railroad through Jefferson and Marshall; Mrs. Johnson's experience riding a bicycle; writing articles for the Marshall Parrot; the African-American…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson's early education at the Fern School; childhood friends; Mrs. Johnson's relationship with Dorris Powell and her mother, Mrs. Odom; Minnie Lee Pattillo's mental health; attending African-American churches as a child; Mrs. Johnson's…
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
Lady Bird Johnson's paternal grandmother; Mrs. Johnson's father, Thomas Jefferson Taylor, Jr., and his childhood; Mr. Taylor's move from Alabama to Texas and setting up his business; the Pattillo family and Mrs. Johnson's parents' marriage; Mrs.…
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz
Early memories of living in Maryland when his father became a senator; visiting the LBJ Ranch; Skip's educational background; LBJ asking Humphrey Jr. to be his 1964 running mate; Humphrey Jr.'s satisfaction with the role of vice president; Humphrey…
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; how Elson came to work for Carl Hayden; Hayden's office staff and how he trained them; Elson working for Hayden again after serving in the military; Hayden's strengths; Elson's efforts to write a report on Grand Canyon…