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Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that for granted. F: And you worked. S: Yes, sir. F: Did you go home that night? S: As I recall, I think I did go home about three or four o'clock. I came back very early the next morning. F: Did you get involved at all in the funeral? S: No, sir. F
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and if the ball calls for me to make the throw to home rather than throw to first I'll throw home, although in my own mind I figured I could catch the man coming down to first and the run was going to score on me anyway, if you follow that baseball analogy . Yes
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , not for a fight. He thought he He got it for a At the time he said, "Well, I'll never wear the thing," but when he became president I think it was always in his lapel. G: Did he ever talk to you about his meeting with Douglas MacArthur there? M: Yes, but I
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • doing some research work . Then Tom [Thomas C .] Hennings [Jr .], who was running for the Senate in Missouri, asked me to come back--Missouri happens to be my home state-­ asked me to come back and work in his campaign . I, in a sense, went back
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • impressed In the official meetings I wasn't present. I was present later at the Ambassador s--I believe it was Ambassador [Douglas] MacArthur [II] at the time--at his home when he had a private party for the. Prime Minister. The Prime Minister slicing
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
  • of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: T.H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Hardeman's residence, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last we time had gone to the 1960 election, which brings us to John Kennedy's years as president. One of the questions that comes up
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , sir, I wanted to ask you about that. To back up into the '40 IS, even if you had not met Mr. Johns·--a had you formed an opinion about him? Had you classified him as a Congressman? M: Yes, I had. I was a pretty conservative young man, and it seemed
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • I NTERVIEl~EE : KENNETH O' DONNELL INTERV I EHER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr . O'Donnell' s office , Park Square Building , Boston , Massachusetts Tape of 2 M: let ' s get your i dentification on the beg i nning of the tape here , sir
Oral history transcript, Arthur C. Perry, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • jeopardizing my own position, and so other than talking to friends and trying to influence their vote, I couldn't take any action that would smack of political activity. F: Yes, sir. So Senator Johnson, now, offered you the position as adminis- trative
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • II. T: That's right, and in the Reserve between the wars. M: Yes, sir. You married Miss Libbie Moody, is that correct, in 1918. And apparently the Marine Corps brought you to Galveston, and here you met under rather unusual circumstances
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . particular occasion. We were sitting in the So it didn't always have to be a It might just be that you were there. I think a lot of times he might thing, "Well, I've got a staff member who has been working awfully hard, and he has been away from home
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a better staff in the Senate while I was there than Johnson had, both in his senatorial office and on his committee staff . He was a perfectionist . of happy homes with his demands on your time . in his vocabulary . He broke up a lot Sunday
  • LBJ’s election as whip; Senator Ernest McFarland; Senator Richard Russell; Preparedness Committee; Senator Estes Kefauver; Douglas MacArthur’s speech to Congress; natural gas bill; Tidelands bill; Walter Jenkins; LBJ’s love for the ranch and cattle
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Knowland led the fight for civil rights, and Senator [Paul] Douglas of Illinois. Lyndon didn't want to disturb good relations with those elements of the Democrat Party and the country at large who were for strong civil rights; neither did he want to lose
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in For example, he lived further out in Washington than we And I would say more than half of the time, maybe three-fourths of the nights, he would actually take me home, and it was a pretty good drive. We would get to visit a great deal, you see. That's
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • funeral was in Texarkana. I was in the home of my predecessor, whose name was Frank Baldwin, late the afternoon of the funeral-we hadn't gone there, we didn't have any reason to go to Texarkana for that--when Lyndon Johnson phoned Frank Baldwin
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • she would call me here in Washington to give me a little report of what was going on. So she waited until twelve o'clock midnight because of a two hour difference. She knew it'd be ten o'clock here, just about the time I'd be getting home
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , [and] had her, and he and Mrs. Johnson arrange that wedding. story white house in Austin. that wedding. He said that Mrs. Johnson would handle the It was in the Johnson home, that old twoAnd they handled every arrangement for They got the preacher
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "If you intend to ever go home to Texas, do it within two years or you'll never go back." He said, "I planned to come for a couple of years and I've been here"--I think he'd been there forty-something years at the time. He was a very special person
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : ELIZABETH ROWE (Mrs. James Rowe) INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mrs. Rowe's home in Washington, D. C. (Tapelofl) June 6, 1975 MG: Mrs. Rowe, let's start briefly with your background and where you were born. R: You say you
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember that, in April of '45? N: Yes, I do. Yes, he was bringing Dorothy Plyler and me home the next day I think it was. I said, "He's gone; who do we have now?" And he said, "Honey, we've got Truman." I don't remember what I said, but he said