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Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Meeting LBJ in regard to a CBS affiliate in Austin; LBJ’s involvement with, and knowledge of, the radio business; Jesse Kellam; radio stations as investments in the 1940’s; how LBJ obtained a television station; Larry Fly; the involvement of…
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson
How Stanford became involved in civil rights issues; the 1964 Mississippi summer project's goals; voter registration for African Americans in Mississippi and other southern states; the relationships between different civil rights organizations; the…
Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; early education; Spinn's experiences as a student at Southwest Texas State Teacher's College (SWTSTC) in San Marcos; LBJ's reputation on campus at SWTSTC; student organizations and dating; LBJ as a debater; the Black Stars;…
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Allan Shivers and LBJ's 1956 fight for control of the Texas Democratic Party; Spears' work with Shivers; Shivers leaving the Democratic Party; the 1956 Texas Democratic Convention; Dwight Eisenhower as president; John Connally.
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
White House-State Department relationship on foreign policy; Vietnam; bombing; bureaucratic machinery; opposition to the war; leaks.
Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; NSC; JFK’s Administration; briefing LBJ while VP; space program; LBJ’s relationship with JFK; LBJ and foreign affairs; organization of NSC operations; Senior Interdepartmental Group; Tuesday luncheons; McGeorge Bundy;…
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1955 heart attack at George Brown's home and his health before the heart attack; LBJ's recovery from the heart attack; why LBJ was an effective Senate majority leader; LBJ's relationships with President Dwight Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn;…
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
Going to work for Senator Thomas Kuchel; presidential appointments from California during Dwight Eisenhower's administration; political factions in California in the 1930s and 1940s; Earl Warren's early law and political career; Kuchel's rise to…
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger
The evolution of power in the United Nations (UN) from 1945 to 1983; the United States' power within the UN; the problem with giving each nation one vote; bringing Vietnam before the UN Security Council in the mid-1960s; UN Ambassador Arthur…
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s unanimous consent policy; Allan Shivers; Knowland; the Bricker Amendment; Siegel’s involvement in a variety of legislative acts; Farm Bill; Walter George; LBJ’s power of persuasion; LBJ and partisanship; recommital of the Taft-Hartley…
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker
Rejoining LBJ’s staff to help on the civil rights measure; building LBJ’s reputation in the Senate so he could make a presidential bid; JFK in the senatorial years; LBJ’s delay in campaigning for the nomination in 1960; how LBJ came to be VP…
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker
Early work with LBJ and as executive assistant to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Don Cook; work on the Preparedness Committee; LBJ’s attitude toward professional military men; LBJ’s temper and lack of inter-personal skills; LBJ using…
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
Adam Clayton Powell’s role in Congress and his criticism of Shriver and the Office of Economic Opportunity; the political ramifications of dispersing federal funds without the input of local politicians; John Connally’s criticism of War on…
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
Middle- and upper-class American fear and hostility toward the poor; closing Job Corps centers in 1968 due to budget cuts; formal evaluation of the Office of Economic Opportunity programs; comparison of Bill Haddad and Edgar May as head of the OEO…
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
Shriver's opinion that Job Corps would yield results quickly; how Shriver's work for the Chicago Board of Education guided his work in Job Corps; the idea of putting the Job Corps under the Department of Defense; LBJ's support for Shriver's desire to…
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing…
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz
How Short met LBJ; Short's involvement in the Minnesota Committee on Rocketry; LBJ accepting JFK's offer to be his vice presidential running mate before a deal could be worked out with Orville Freeman; LBJ's vice presidential duties relating to civil…
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Biographical information; the history of medical research in the United States and other countries; Public Law 480 funds; the benefits of international collaboration in medical research; the contributions of Congressman John Fogarty to health…
Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero
Biographical information; how Shanks met LBJ; LBJ's effect on industrial development in Austin; LBJ's effect on racial issues in Austin; LBJ's relationship with Austin mayor Tom Miller; desegregation in Austin; LBJ's influence on Shank's decision to…
Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Early ideas and leadership in Congress that led to the War on Poverty; getting the depressed areas bill, also known as the area redevelopment bill, passed in 1961; administration and funding of the area redevelopment programs; housing legislation in…
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's involvement in the Ranch after his retirement; LBJ's plans for the Ranch after his death; chickens and vegetable gardens at the Ranch; LBJ's ranch in Mexico, Las Pampas; LBJ's support of the Mexican communities near Las Pampas; LBJ's trips to…
Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Scott's background; how the Malecheks came to work for the Johnsons on the Ranch; meeting LBJ; improvements made to the Ranch under the Malecheks' care; LBJ's fond memories of his childhood; LBJ's Ranch "family"; Ranch employees and their duties;…
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Biographical information and family history; Scott's hearing and health problems; Scott's educational background; Scott's early work experience and how she became a newspaper reporter; Scott's work for the Houston Post and Hulsey Theatres; Scott's…
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; a meeting with Pope Pius XII; the Adenauer visit to the Ranch; LBJ asks to be remembered in prayers; attending the Adenauer funeral; Willi Brandt characterized; LBJ as a host; a visit at the White House; Catholics on the LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Meeting LBJ; the relationship between LBJ and JFK; the 1960 campaign; LBJ’s role as Vice-President; LBJ’s Berlin trip in 1961; tension between LBJ and RFK; the Committee for Equal Employment Opportunities; why JFK went to Texas in November 1963;…
Oral history transcript, Josefa Baines Saunders, interview 1 (I), 12/28/1964, by Juanita Roberts
Biographical information; Baines family; LBJ’s birth; George Johnson; The House and Furnishing; Ruth Amet Hoffman; Joseph Wilson Baines; Natural Breeze; Lyndon’s room; Mrs. Johnson reading to LBJ; move to Johnson City; Murphy Bed.
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger
How Saunders came to work for the CIA in 1956; job duties and how Saunders came to work for the National Security Council in 1961; the process of presidential decision-making and the role of the NSC under different presidents; preparation for Tuesday…
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Allan's Shivers' political philosophy; Shivers' refusal to place Dwight Eisenhower on both the Democratic and Republican tickets in the 1952 presidential election in Texas; Shivers' supporters and detractors; Sandlin's involvement with the Veterans…
Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
How Sandlin became associated with Governor Allan Shivers; the Texas State Democratic Executive Committee; the 1952 State Democratic Convention; Sandlin's work as secretary and chairman of the Texas Democratic Executive Committee; Governor Shivers'…
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan
The Middle East; Glassboro; the European sphere; NATO; the Czechoslovakian invasion; Africa; greatest mistake; failure; crisis and satisfaction of the eight-year period
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Coordination of military and political effort problem; Nixon Vietnam problem; U.S. relations with mainland China, Laos, Thailand, Japan and Okinawa, Indonesia and Korea; Pueblo incident; India’s food problem; the Alliance for Progress; the Panama…
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
JFK and Vietnam; events leading up to Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Congress and Vietnam; personal observations on Vietnam; bombing and bombing halts; various peace missions and conferences; letter to Ho Chi Minh; the “Wise Men;” plans for peace…
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Detailed recollections of LBJ as President; reflections on his role as Majority Leader and VP; LBJ and Rusk’s personal and professional relationship; LBJ, RFK and certain Kennedy staff members; LBJ and foreign leaders; the Tuesday Lunch; LBJ’s…
Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger
The University of Texas’ racist reputation; Mack Hannah; LBJ trying to recruit prospective black students for UT; Julius Whittier; Roosevelt Leaks; Earl Campbell; LBJ’s interest in football and attending UT games; LBJ’s Secret Service…
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Guerilla warfare, especially in countries with a lack of unity under a central government; difficulties opposing guerilla warfare tactics; President Eisenhower's policy toward developing countries and his role as a reluctant innovator; special forces…