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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a family feeling present, and this has been true through all the years. [He] has never divided his time and his friends between work-friends and play-friends. ciations at night. his social friends. He doesn't turn off work asso­ He scoops up the people
  • . Shriver and Ethel Kennedy to Texas; LBJ’s ability to recall names; 1960 election night; began working for LBJ when VP.
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • standing outside during all of this period. I think the meeting was called for something like 12:00, it started about 12:30 and ended about 2:00. Johnson read us his Johns Hopkins speech about the r1ekong Delta which he gave a few days later--that dates
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was in the group. We met with the trio Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, Sunday, Sunday night. They had various meetings in which we met with them jointly with the union, or separately. And they left around a late hour Sunday night to report to the President
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ? that
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • page But and mine on the other, people that read the papers could see the difference of the positions. And then the Constitution changed its position, our morning newspaper, and began to advocate it. And then people began to say that, "Well, maybe
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lufkin that were on the football team: and Elvin Read. Ardis Hopper, Clark Gordon The first week of training I was there in order to get acquainted with the coaches, and at a Mrs. Gates' house, where the training table was being maintained, I met
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • report that r made to Judge Davidson after the hearing was over, I read it, but I can't think of anything out of the ordinary that happened. I do remember that a subpoena was issued for Luis Salas, and the marshal couldn't find him the night before
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the following day. I recall I went to my mother-in-law's house in Cincinnati after making the speech and made approximately seventy-two phone calls from Cincinnati to Washington. I went out to dinner that night with the agent in charge, Ed Mason and Boris Letwin
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • And the Austin district then was more of a New Deal district than most districts in Texas. too much of it; I read about it of course. him speak in the campaign. I didn't watch And I don't recall hearing I don't know whether I heard any of the speeches
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and if the President decided that he did want me to go, then I would be prepared to do so. I went out to lunch over at Dillon, Read and got a call at lunch from Nick saying that Secretary Rusk and the President had met further, and that they did want me to go to Cyprus
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Sunday night and he had a little press conference on Friday. We had a drink in his private office off the Oval Office. He wanted us to argue with him as to whether he should or he shouldn't, and I think he had pretty well made up his mind then for certain
  • ; working with Marvin Watson; night reading; LBJ’s memory; LBJ’s humor; a Chinese employee of Ambassador Raul Castro who came to work for LBJ; LBJ’s and staff’s relationship with the press and privacy; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • Lady Bird. Lyndon called me one day and said he wanted to introduce me to his girl and suggested that we have dinner. Of course, he didn’t have any money and I didn’t either. So, I said, “You know I went to a place last night that sure had a wonderful
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • explicit here, but reading these documents from this year you really get the impression that he was raring to go after something else. He wanted to run for the Senate, or he wanted to do something else. J: Well, I think--yes. In every job that he
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [Reading a memo] "Mike and Joe Califano visited Senator Ribicoff separately. Last night the Senator called Joe Bowman and told him that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there was a plane because I was standby. So I went down instead and took a cab to the bus station, got an all-night bus to San Francisco full of Jehovah's Witnesses on the way to a 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Let's see now, his actual Boston campaign, that came later. I've got to be careful not to confuse the two. G: According to my notes, the meetings were held at night after you got there. R: Right. Don't forget, we got there fairly late in the day
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HUGH SIDEY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 M: The purpose is obviously not to make you duplicate things that you have written. I've tried to read not only your books but as many of the columns
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . She wanted me to start the second semester--and this is a woman who could hardly speak English and could not read any English. But to these people, coming in from the European countries at that time, education was very important and they always
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- II -- 4 the President standing in the back of the office. It wasn't until I got the transcript that I read, "Yes." That's the way
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I thought that all was ended. I did receive from Senator Johnson a letter which I think was written after the first trial in Austin. It's dated August 6, 1960, and is a rather interesting letter. Maybe I should read it into the record, because
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • mayor may not become a member of the Supreme Court at the present reading, and Ed Clark who did become an ambassador to Australia a little bit later. At any rate, we opened this new radio station in 1946, and I was employed as a part-time news editor
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • we lose money all through the winter. And to do this, you have to run either three 8-hour shifts or two l2-hour shifts. At this particular time I was working most of the night at the 7-Up plant, running the machinery myself, and working during
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • of them we'd known before, and others we had read about and known of. Others, like ourselves, were more or less anonymous in this group. So, it was an unfor- gettable evening. We spent the night and two successive nights there as guests
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . in 1981. What is to The first part was The second part was written a few weeks ago The third part will be my answers to the questions that Mike Gillette may have for me after I have read the script which I have written out. This is recording some
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • seldom did they get action footage broadcast, partly because when there's an infantry fire fight, everybody gets down and you can't see much. The enemy attacked at night; the allies did their sweeps in daylight. As Professor Lawrence Lichty
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • traveled I received a call from a man by the name of Lyndon B. Johnson, to my surprise, about four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. duced himself. I went to the telephone. He intro- I told him yes, I had read of him in the papers, of his having come
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • eight and eight-thirty every morning, and Hould stay over there and vic;it with the President, go over with the President the night reading which I ~ill refer to in just a second; and take whatever instructions th0 President hac for the day and relay
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was delivering newspapers in Bishop and I read in the Houston Chronicle that the NYA had been set up, and that he was going to be the administrator of it ; that you could get $15 .50 a month and go to the University by working two hours a day or some such thing
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. One of my best paintings, which is now in the apartment in New York, the Fragonard called "Lady Reading a Letter," was in the hands of Göring, who wanted it more than anything in the world. He even made an offer through Seyss-Inquart, who
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in behalf of the visit, day and night, as I had for several weeks, I was beginning to experience a sense of well, "it's just terrific." Then all at once the motorcade came to a stop. say it sounded like maybe a car backfiring. At first I would have to I
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to the polls in Duval County. They were never able to check that out because of the fact that the ballots were burned, but on the night of the election, I got a report from the county chairman at nine-thirty at night. G: Now, this was the Duval County chairman
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the evening. M: Were you sometimes called back then? C: If you were working on a speech you would. It was very rare that you were called back by him, or that I was. But if it was something that was due in his night reading you would sometimes labor right
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • York Times. We should get that story. I came into a meeting in the White House that morning and I had not read the Times, or at least I hadn't read that story, and walked into this meeting the President was having with a group of mayors in the Cabinet
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • advertising agency around the clock for two straight nights and days and we completed the program. Meanwhile I was working with the advance men on this dinner. My first connection with the trip came when the President and the Vice President landed
  • back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • or seventy passengers. It took six nights on the boat to get to San Francisco and the smell of the raw sugar coming up from the hold because they were carrying 15,000 tons of sugar, it made a lot of people sick but I love sugar smells so it didn't make me
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • or seventy passengers. It took six nights on the boat to get to San Francisco and the smell of the raw sugar coming up from the hold because they were carrying 15,000 tons of sugar, it made a lot of people sick but I love sugar smells so it didn't make me
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • or seventy passengers. It took six nights on the boat to get to San Francisco and the smell of the raw sugar coming up from the hold because they were carrying 15,000 tons of sugar, it made a lot of people sick but I love sugar smells so it didn't make me
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • or seventy passengers. It took six nights on the boat to get to San Francisco and the smell of the raw sugar coming up from the hold because they were carrying 15,000 tons of sugar, it made a lot of people sick but I love sugar smells so it didn't make me
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Gerald Mann, that was attorney general, a popular attorney general, too. So he decided to run, and then Lyndon did. Well, election night it showed Lyndon 5000 ahead of O'Daniel. The papers there, which are in the Library, show where they conceded
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in, Daddy called every sheriff in every county up till he got to E1 Paso. But they traveled by night and slept in the daytime until they got out of Texas. Then of course he ended up--started out picking peaches and working with the other boys, you know