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Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette
1974 Budget Impoundment Act; how Cutler came to work for government; the importance of seniority on committees; Cutler's work on veterans' affairs; Wilbur Cohen and the creation of Medicare; Jacob Javits' national health care initiative; Javits'…
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; high school debate interactions with LBJ; LBJ's 1948 campaign; Crooker's naval service; LBJ's 1956 campaign; LBJ's chances of being made the Democratic presidential candidate in 1960; the Harris County LBJ for President…
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Crook's early contact with LBJ; Crook's loyalty in the 1960 presidential election despite problems showing his public support for LBJ and/or JFK; Crook's role in the 1960 presidential campaign; Crook's contact with Vice…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
Factors that led to Lister Hill's decision to not run for re-election in 1968; Cronin's reaction to LBJ's 1968 announcement that he would not run for re-election; public opinion regarding Vietnam; Hill's support for the administration's actions…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
Cronin's view of Vietnam policy in the mid-1960s; public opinion of the Vietnam War in 1967; Senator Tom Dodd's 1967 censure; ethics among senators; the Presidential Campaign Fund Act and the election reform bill; the 1967 expansion of the Elementary…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
The origin of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA); education legislation and separation of church and state; student loan forgiveness for public and private school teachers; Senator Lister Hill's interest in education; working with Congressman…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
The transition from John F. Kennedy to LBJ and comparing the two men; the 1964 civil rights bill; moral versus legal arguments regarding civil rights; Alabama's opposition to civil rights legislation; the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955; George…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette
1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
The natural gas bill of 1956; Senator Lister Hill's reputation for being pro-labor; labor legislation in the 1950s; President Eisenhower's 1958 veto of the rivers and harbors bill; Alaskan statehood; Eisenhower as president; the election of a…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
Foreign policy during the Dwight Eisenhower administration; Robert Taft and the Hill-Burton Act; partisanship in the Senate during the Eisenhower administration; the Bricker Amendment; support for organized labor in southern states; separation of…
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
How Cronin was hired to go to work for Lister Hill in Washington, D.C.; Cronin's relationship with Marc Ray "Foots" Clement; Cronin's duties under Hill; Lister Hill's staff; Hill's work ethic; Hill's interest in education and health issues; Hill…
Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton
Boyhood days in Johnson City; family friendship with LBJ, who preferred older people as friends; LBJ and Crider brothers' visit to California where Ben Crider was employed; boyhood activities on ranches in Blanco City near Johnson City; mother's…
Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Characteristics of the Bunton family; Rebekah and Sam Ealy Johnson training Cox as a child in elocution and extemporaneous speaking; Sam Ealy Johnson's personality; LBJ as a student; Cox and LBJ doing farm work and road work; Sam Ealy Johnson's work…
Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton
Cowles' connection to the University of Texas; the origin of the Flair Symposium and its first symposia in 1994; Cowles' work at Look magazine; how Flair magazine was started and why it did not succeed; the Flair Annual; recognition Cowles has…
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek
Connally did not ever keep a diary or maintain a large quantity of unnecessary papers; going to work for LBJ in 1939; a typical work day; Victor "Cap" Harding; distributing money through an ad hoc Congressional Campaign Committee; joining LBJ’s…
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
President Roosevelt calling congressmen out of military service during World War II; Mildred Moody; Connally's naval career; Daniel Moody; Alvin Wirtz; the Johnsons' business properties in Austin in the 1940's; Hardy Hollers; the Dillman Street home…
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
How Connally became aware of LBJ in the 1930's; LBJ's 1938 campaign; 1938 Ernest Thompson gubernatorial campaign; Eddie Joseph; how Connally became LBJ's congressional secretary; Connally's work/duties in Washington D.C.; letter-writing for LBJ;…
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger
Coup of 1960; ambassadors and the CIA; pacification programs; CIA leadership; covert action; Phoenix; Thien
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger
Intelligence operations in Vietnam; Ngo Dinh Nhu; French influence; Diem; North to South infiltration; social and economic regeneration; Americans in Vietnam in 1959; MAAG; land reform; strategic hamlet program; argoville program; Buddhists; the role…
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1969, by David G. McComb
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb
[For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ…
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Mr. Cohen's memory of LBJ's involvement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the 1950s; Cohen's personal interactions with LBJ and his staff; Cohen approaching Bureau of the Budget director Kermit Gordon with a request for more money…
Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; W. Kerr Scott; Brown v. Board of Education; Harold Cooley; the Southern Manifesto; Walter George and Herman Talmadge; moderate stances among Senate leaders like LBJ; Benjamin Everett Jordan; Bobby Baker; how LBJ became…
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Role in the difficulty that arose over Department of Labor’s proposed reorganization.
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
April riots; Washington riots; role of military troops; interest of foreign military groups in American example of dealing with riots; Resurrection City; 1968 Democratic Convention; involvement in inflation fights; LBJ’s relationship with William…
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Secretary of Defense appointment; hosted Inaugural Day luncheon for Johnson’s; associations with Department of Defense; inheritance of McNamara team; programs to eliminate racism in services; discrimination at bases; domestic contributions by…
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Abe Fortas; deterioration of Democratic Party machinery; John Bailey; prior knowledge of 3/31 announcement; Homer Thornberry; 1968 Democratic Convention; relationship with President eroded in 1968 over Vietnam; McNamara’s move to the World Bank.
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Article in FOREIGN AFFAIRS; Wisemen’s meetings; no military plan for victory in Vietnam;
San Antonio formula; divided opinion regarding Vietnam among cabinet members; task force to study sending additional troops to Vietnam; RFK-Sorenson…
San Antonio formula; divided opinion regarding Vietnam among cabinet members; task force to study sending additional troops to Vietnam; RFK-Sorenson…
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Kennedy family attitude toward LBJ; Kennedy staff; discussions of staffing pattern for the White House; 1964 campaign; Republican National Convention, 1964; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam issue in the campaign; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ’s inheriting…
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Naval career; Special Counsel to President Truman; formation of the Department of Defense; first association with LBJ; Taft-Hartley Act; member of the 1946 labor advisory group; 1948 campaign train; Truman’s relationship…
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
[For interviews 1 and 2] First impressions of LBJ; LBJ's visits to Kentucky Derby; the McCarthy censure; LBJ's powers of persuasion; LBJ's speaking engagements for Democratic candidates; 1960 campaign; how LBJ became VP candidate; Social Security…
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
[For interviews 1 and 2] First impressions of LBJ; LBJ's visits to Kentucky Derby; the McCarthy censure; LBJ's powers of persuasion; LBJ's speaking engagements for Democratic candidates; 1960 campaign; how LBJ became VP candidate; Social Security…
Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; Court Packing Bill; first meeting with LBJ, 1937-1938; appointed by FDR to the Department of Justice, Criminal Division; supported Rayburn for VP in 1944; court backlog; FDR's support of LBJ; transfer to Antitrust Division;…
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker
Safe Streets Bill; use of electronic surveillance (telephone wire taps) for national security; federal aid to local law enforcement; assessment of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker
Urban disorders of 1966 and 1967; assassination of MLK
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by T.H. Baker
Watts riots 1965; history of Community Relations Service and its appropriate setting; White House Conference on Civil Rights 1966; Open Housing Bill
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1969, by T.H. Baker
Tenure in Lands Division of AG office; procedures for presidential appointment; RFK-LBJ relationship; JFK assassination; work at White House in 1964 as detached duty from AG assignment; White House staff assignments; appointments in AG’s office and…
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker
Early contacts with LBJ; 1961 appointment as Assistant Attorney General
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek
How Clark met LBJ; how Governor James Allred helped LBJ run for Congress in 1937; campaign costs in 1937; LBJ's support for FDR; fundraising for LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Brown and Root; W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel's victory over LBJ in 1941; Lady…