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Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; state of commercial helicopter aviation in 1948; circumstances of joining campaign as pilot; description of the helicopter; refueling the helicopter; maintenance check; campaigning by helicopter; impressions of LBJ; Sam and…
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert
Special telephone interview regarding the impact of television on public policy; White House Communications Agency; use of videotape; White House Naval Photographic Unit films; LBJ's close relations with the press; television news reports; effect of…
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Heads of State visits; press corps shift to San Antonio; LBJ’s interest in Texas politics; LBJ State Park; Connally-Yarborough feud; McNamara resignation; Clark Clifford; division with Willard Wirtz; cabinet officers and White House staff members…
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Experiences with Presidential foreign travel; importance of availability of communication; Presidential speeches; LBJ’s foreign relations; White House staff press briefings; Marvin Watson; 75% free hand with the press; Fortas/Thornberry nomination;…
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Bill Moyers as press secretary; LBJ’s techniques; overseas trips.
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
East Wing press corps; Liz Carpenter; White House reporters; press accreditation; LBJ’s relationship with the press; LBJ-Udall controversy; cabinet members; MLK and RFK assassinations.
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker
Career; White House personnel; press operation; transition difficulties; Vietnam negotiations; LBJ’s contemplation of not running for reelection in 1968.
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette
Who LBJ called after Kennedy’s assassination, History of Doris Kearn and Johnson, 1964 campaign.
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
Duties as Secretary, LBJ’s Vice Presidential days, Trips with Johnson, Fehmer’s opinion of LBJ’s relationships with the Kennedys, JFK’s Assassination and aftermath.
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Background information about self, How she came to work for Johnson and the first week on the job.
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio…
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby
Health care reform; Mary Lasker; White House Health Conference, 1965; Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act; Family Assistance Program.
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
LBJ’s speech for Smithsonian celebration; International Education Act; world education; HEW; Civil Rights Act; Adam Clayton Powell; LBJ’s lifestyle after heart attack.
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb
Liaison with USIA; international education; PBS Act Corp.; CIA involvement with NSA; work with intellectual community; academic trips to gather ideas; impressions of Eric Goldman and The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson; Arts and Humanities Endowment;…
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Biographical information; how Castro became the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador; Castro's interaction with Fidel and Raul Castro of Cuba and confusion regarding Castro's name; Castro's opinion of, and involvement in, the relationship between El…
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton
The creation of the LBJ Memorial Grove and the committee that oversaw its planning; finding stone in Texas to create a megalith for the memorial; the location of the memorial in Lady Bird Johnson Park and the creation of the Lady Bird Johnson Park;…
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton
Efforts to establish a historic site at Lady Bird Johnson's childhood home in Karnack, Texas; early planning for the National Wildflower Research Center; the first board of directors for the Center; Carlton Lees' assistance in writing the charter for…
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 5 (V), 5/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Solidarity Day, June 19, 1968; Solidarity Day chairmen Bayard Rustin and, later, Sterling Tucker; Dean Rusk's son, David Rusk, and his work on Solidarity Day; estimating the number of people expected for the Solidarity Day event; speeches by Ralph…
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 4 (IV), 4/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Congressional interest in, and reaction to, planning of the Resurrection City demonstration in the 1968 Poor People's Campaign; congressional hearings related to the demonstration; the issue of whether or not to issue a permit for Resurrection City;…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater
LBJ purchasing and renovating the Boyhood Home; LBJ's interest in providing public access to his homes and his papers; LBJ's intended purpose for the Library; comparing the LBJ Presidential Library with other presidential libraries; the importance of…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Reaction to William Manchester book; personal statement on Bill Manchester; Lady Bird’s trip to the University of Alabama; flap over Lady Bird’s property in Alabama; Lady Bird’s TV tour of Washington; criticism of Lady Bird for spending on…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Luci and Lynda; Luci’s wedding; trips to Marshall to be with her father; Lady Bird’s encouragement for Lynda to leave U.T.; Warrie Lyn Smith; categories of news; commercialization of the White House; Luci’s job with optometrist; Lynda’s…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
40 trips; Discover America; LBJ’s trip to Senegal while VP; Cadillac diplomacy; JFK approved LBJ’s approach on trips; Ayub Khan told LBJ that Russians would be testing JFK in international area; Ayub Khan’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; camel-driver…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Evolving of Lady Bird’s role as First Lady; handled all speech invitations; beginning of beautification idea; Sharon Francis; beautification efforts; Walter Washington; planting of Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; billboards; LBJ’s interest in…
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
First meeting Lady Bird; worked for Esther Van Wagoner Tufty; her wedding; presentation of calf from LBJ and Rayburn to President Eisenhower; ready access; LBJ’s willingness to share credit with local Congressmen whenever a story broke; two real…
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener
Agency and department-level reaction to LBJ’s use of task forces to change policy-making; information leaking out of the task force system; the effect of the task force operation on the Bureau of the Budget; William Cannon; relationship between the…
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener
Biographical information; how Carey came to work for the Bureau of the Budget; John Steelman; post-war work and staff of Bureau of the Budget; cooperation between government and universities in scientific research; National Science Foundation Act;…
Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Capron's work on the Council of Economic Advisers in 1963; research and plans to address poverty issues in the Kennedy Administration; Capron's involvement in a Saturday lunch group that studied poverty issues and developed related program ideas in…
Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb
Meeting LBJ; biographical information; LBJ's illness; LBJ as a patient; political career; medical problems during 1948 campaign; reaction to illness; gallbladder operation; 1955 heart attack; operations; weight; work routine; recuperative powers;…
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ and the Vice Presidency, Nixon’s precedents and travel, particularly his trip to Venezuela and the inflaming of the situation in Caracas, Tom Mann, LBJ's first vice-presidential trip, Professor Eric Zimmerman, trips to Puerto Rico and Senegal…
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
Busby’s involvement in an oversight commission on the poverty program, Maurice Leibman, trying to find out who filled all the White House offices, meeting Dr. Warren, Theodore Sorensen, Appalachian poverty and jobs, writing the State of the Union…
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 6 (VI), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
Allen Duckworth selling a picture of LBJ and visiting the LBJ Ranch, Ted Dealey's statements regarding LBJ, visiting Hyannis Port with LBJ to see JFK, a flood at the LBJ Ranch during a Busby family visit
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 5 (V), 8/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ giving NYA scholarship money to black students at Prairie View, race relations in Texas, Ferguson County speech, LBJ's maiden speech--Unlimited debate speech of 1949, death of soldier (Felix Longoria), LBJ's relationship with Mexican-Americans.
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
George E.B. Peddy's role in Stevenson vs. LBJ second primary, Stevenson's and LBJ's activities leading up to second primary, black voters, working with Alex Louis and D.B. Hardeman, waiting for votes to be tallied, votes being thrown out.
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's opinion of the Taft-Hartley legislation, Coke Stevenson's campaign methods, Dr. Homer Rainey?s dismissal and resulting University of Texas student demonstration, LBJ's campaign strategy involving the Ferguson family and small town visits, how…
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's decision to run for Senate, LBJ's fallout with his campaign headquarters, LBJ's modes of transportation; campaign staff duties and views, small Texas town campaign visits.
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
His decision to work for LBJ, John Connally's role among LBJ staff members, LBJ's childhood, Billy Drake, LBJ's relationship with his staff, Busby’s role as speechwriter, Coke Stevenson's political career, the Roosevelt election.
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Appointment as ambassador by LBJ; Guam Conference, 1967; impressions of Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky; Vietnam's presidential election campaign in 1967; religious factions; advice to Thieu; recommendation for U.S. to close Viet Cong's use of…
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Vietnam enemy inflitration through Laos and Cambodia and pros and cons of U.S. invasion to cut supply lines; Bunker's conviction concerning censorship of the press; LBJ's 3/31/1968 decision not to seek re-election; bombing pause; U.S. plans to train…
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
November 1967 report to LBJ by Bunker; Bob Komer and General Westmoreland; pacification progress and military situations; 1968 Tet offensive; Bunker's reputation that the U.S. had prior knowledge of the timing of the offensive; Bunker's impression…