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Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
[For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model…
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
[For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model…
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny
Nuclear/non-nuclear submarine and fleet vessels; developments in intelligence gathering; military-industrial complex; Office of Science and Technology; chemical warfare; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; Congress
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/12/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny
ABM System; space; Functional Orbit Bombardment; Vietnam; F-III program; AMSA; Admiral Rickover
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny
Biographical information; Themis; meetings with LBJ; directorship; weapons system research development; Sentinel; Poseidon; Minuteman; MIRV; laser; potential nuclear threats; Test Ban Treaty
Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; first consciousness of LBJ; relationship with LBJ; McCarthy issue; Bobby Baker case; Dominican situation; appointment to the Supreme Court; JFK Fair Employment Practice E.O.; civil rights record
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's involvement in the White House "To Fulfill These Rights" conference; Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action;" deciding who would be invited to speak at the conference; Fleming's career and how it…
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
1964 Presidential message to 18 nation Disarmament Commission; Pastore resolution; William Foster; MFL; Walt Rostow; Aleksei A. Roshchin; George Bunn; Sam DePalma; Tsoraphin; Ambassador Swidbert Schnippenkoetter; Ambassador Knappstein; Mr. Gromyko;…
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
First meeting with LBJ in March, 1946; Ganson Purcell; James Rowe; Sam Rayburn; W. Averell Harriman; Truman’s anti-inflation program; General Counsel for AEC; Herbert Marks; Kenneth D. McKellar; Dr. Edward U. Condon; General McArthur; Richard…
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's meeting with Richard Nixon and members of Nixon's Cabinet following the 1968 election; LBJ's interest in finding a cure for cancer; problems enacting civil rights legislation, such as "white flight"; problems with the implementation of…
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Meeting LBJ and the "Johnson treatment;" deciding how to proceed in the Richard Nixon Administration with Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) programs that existed in the Johnson Administration; problems enacting civil rights legislation; Finch's…
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Feldman's involvement in a select committee that investigated the discharge of General Douglas MacArthur; Senator Richard Russell's role in that committee; the relationship between Russell and LBJ; Walter Jenkins.
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Abe Fortas' role in the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; how LBJ's control of the Committee was undermined; John Macy; discrimination in White House hiring; NASA; federal workforce turnover; Feild's involvement with Eisenhower's…
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 2 (II), 7/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Plans for Progress controversy; Bobby Troutman; EEO-1; requirement that individual facilities report statistics; corporate Plans for Progress office; how Bobby Troutman generated conflict between LBJ and RFK; volunteerism vs. mandatory compliance;…
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Career history leading up to Feilds’ work with the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; Phil Hart; the consolidation of the President’s Committee on Government Contracts and the President’s Committee on Government Employment…
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Faulk’s boarders, Mr. And Mrs. John Talley; how Faulk came to know of LBJ; J. Frank Dobie; Nazi Germany; racism; Faulk’s father; Faulk’s experience with black people; John Connally; LBJ’s career in the 1950s; 1956 Presidential election;…
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; image of LBJ; opposition to LBJ as Vice President nominee; 1957 Civil Rights Act; NAACP; CORE; differences with in the civil rights movement; Bayard Rustin; Montgomery bus boycott; Freedom Rides; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
LBJ asking for a moratorium on demonstrations; John Lewis and Farmer against moratorium; antagonism toward Farmer; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Selma March; Community Relations Division of Justice Department; CORE’s resolution regarding…
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
Evers' friendship with LBJ as VP and President; LBJ as Chairman of Equal Employment Commission for JFK; LBJ and Louis Martin at meeting of black leaders; Voters' Rights Bill signed into law; Bobby Kennedy's run for presidency; Senator James Eastland…
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette
Why LBJ hired Eckhardt; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; downplaying LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; how Eckhardt’s opinion of LBJ improved; the Southern Manifesto; LBJ’s public vs. private opinions.
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
How Eckhardt and first husband, Billy Lee Brammer, came to work for LBJ; early impressions of LBJ; Ronnie Dugger; clipping articles from Texas newspapers for LBJ; LBJ’s senatorial staff; socializing with the Johnsons; how LBJ treated people;…
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
30 years in the Senate; first meeting with LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Senator Russell; LBJ as Minority Leader; Committee on Internal Security; McCarthy issue; tidelands issue; becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee with the help of…
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; meeting LBJ at college in San Marcos; clubs at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College (SWTSTC), including the White Stars; LBJ's parents; LBJ's early interest in politics; professors LBJ admired at SWTSTC, including…
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger
Mrs. Dorbandt’s vote in the 1948 Democratic Executive Committee meeting that certified LBJ as the senatorial nominee; bringing Charlie Gibson in to break the tie in the 1948 Senate Executive Committee meeting.
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Senator George McGovern's interest in food programs; how McGovern's interest moved from international to domestic food issues; the Senate Agricultural Committee; Bob Choate and Ben Stong's involvement in the creation of the…
Oral history transcript, B. F. "Tom" Donald, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; Donald's duties in Jim Wells County during the 1948 Democratic U.S. Senate primary; Coke Stevenson's efforts to see the voting records; suspicions regarding the final 200 names on the Jim Wills County voting/poll list; the…
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Discussion of issues associated with LBJ's political service; federal aid to public schools; Supreme Court appointments
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White
Recollection and historical analysis of LBJ's House and Senate days; working relationship between LBJ, as Senate Democratic leader and Dirksen as Senate Republican leader; concept of support of Commander-in-Chief (when LBJ was President, in relation…
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger
The Elysee Accords in 1953; the North/South division of Vietnam and resulting changes in leadership; Ngo Dinh Diem's early work as the first president of South Vietnam; opposition to Diem by 1960; the Can Lao Party and Ngo Dinh Nhu; methods of…
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; Vo Nguyen Giap in the 1930s; the development of nationalist parties and the Communist Party in North Vietnam; Diem's life after the Communists took over North Vietnam in 1945; Diem's opinion of communism and his political…
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger
Desobry's military career before going to Vietnam in 1965; Vietnam as a learning experience; Desobry's duties as a senior adviser in IV Corps; Robert McNamara's visits to Vietnam; how the military was prevented from defeating the enemy in Vietnam;…
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ’s relationship with J. Edgar Hoover; legislation providing for Hoover’s retirement salary; Billie Sol Estes; White House hiring procedures during LBJ’s presidency; LBJ’s income tax information; LBJ’s concern over the assassination and…
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
Deason's family history; Deason's uncle Charles' work around the Stockdale, Texas, area; Deason's parents and siblings; Deason's educational background; how Deason became a teacher and, later, an attorney; how Deason went to work under LBJ in the…
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's efforts to get legislation passed in 1965; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in beautification; LBJ's interest in the environment; LBJ's awareness of the value of media, especially television and photography; LBJ's efforts to understand what to do…
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil rights-related violence…
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
Senate Preparedness Subcommittee hearings in the early 1950s relating to the draft; problems with drafting doctors for military duty; Darden's work under the Armed Services Committee; problem with drafting WWII veterans for service in Korea; how the…