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Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
1964 legislation; Civil Rights bill; Immigration Bill; Elemenary and Secondary Education Bill; Rent Supplement Bill; Teacher Corps program; tax surcharge; Joe Fowler; Congressman Mills; Nixon
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
1960 Democratic convention; LBJ as VP candidate; religious issue; LBJ as VP; JFK's political standing in 1963; LBJ after the assassination; Larry O'Brien; Mr. Cannon; Congressman Passman; Halleck; Allan Smith; Dick Bolling; Bill Colmer; 1964 campaign…
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Board of Education meetings; Richard Russell; Will Rogers, Jr.; recollections of LBJ as congressman; Albert Thomas; 1948 election; Mike Mansfield; Robert Kerr; Mike Monroney; Clint Anderson;…
Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
First meeting with LBJ; the "Johnson treatment;" Johnson's leadership of the Senate; Johnson's relationship with Secretary Dulles; LBJ and foreign policy; bombing of North Vietnam; Gulf of Tonkin; Dominican Republic; coolness between Fulbright and…
Oral history transcript, Pat Adelman, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1971, by David G. McComb
Adelman's educational background and former jobs; how Adelman got into the radio business; managing Kruger jewelry store; how Adelman became manager at KTBC radio; how Adelman met LBJ; LBJ's difficulty with public speaking; how Adelman brought KTBC…
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Adams' involvement in General William Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS following the airing of The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception; joint chiefs' awareness of order-of-battle inaccuracies; North Vietnamese use of mines and booby traps in…
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Jack Valenti becoming President of the Motion Picture Association instead of Abram; MPA issues that concerned LBJ; integrationist vs. separationist civil rights movements; Berl Bernhard; A. Philip Randolph; problems at the White House Civil Rights…
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic…
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker
Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief; Joe…
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker
Meeting LBJ in 1955; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; Abell's father-in-law Senator Earle Clement's career; LBJ trying to do favors for his colleagues; adjourning Congress for the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles;…
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1969, by T.H. Baker
State dinners; various White House parties; work invovled in planning entertainment; Tyler Abell as chief of protocol; problems connected with Luci's wedding; guest lists; Festival of the Arts; entertainment at the White House; seating arrangements
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker
Mrs. Johnson as first lady; trips into poverty areas; Mrs. Johnson and speeches; Lynda and Luci during the presidency; 1964 campaign and train trip in the South; press on train trip flying Lady Bird Special; Mrs. Johnson's control and…
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker
Early association of Johnson and Clement families; the Johnsons' wedding reception for Bess and Tyler Abell; Tyler Abell joins Johnson campaign; work at the DNC; joining Mrs. Johnson's staff; LBJ as Vice President; Mrs. Johnson as a wife and mother;…
