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Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh May 28, 1969 M: Let's begin by just identifying you, sir. You're Joseph Alsop, a syndicated columnist at the present time and author of numerous books, and you've been doing this same type work for long enough to watch
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIHJEES: GOVERNOR AND NRS. RICHARD HUGHES (Betty Hughes) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Hughes' home in Princeton, New Jersey Tape 1 of 2 F: First of all, Governor Hughes, tell us briefly where you came from, how you gradually moved up
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , if they moved back into Laos or Cambodia, we still carried them; we didn't drop them. G: Once you put them on the OB [order of battle], they were there? 0: That's right. And to the best of my memory, nobody, none of the North Vietnamese ever went home
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , but not quite. T: Very nearly. I begged off. There was some illness at home, and I didn't want to be out of the country that long. So,though Mr. Bowles proposed me, and I think I was accepted on the list, well, at least on the tentative.list, I asked
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it in to me." Well, I did know, and some of what I knew about Stu shouldn't have been written. I knew lots. So I sat down and I patted my typewriter, and I said, "Write, honey." home at night. I sat down and wrote that at And I wrote it and I wrote
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • assistant and was on the staff at the time and Marjorie, his wife, and Beth Jenkins who is now married was about six months old, I guess. They came out to meet me in a Chevrolet coupe, and they took me out to the Johnson home on 30th Place there, out
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at the communication pattern. And we had a lot of other--Douglas Pike is very good on this. G: Marvelous book. R: It's a first-class book. Now I don't know what this working paper on the North Vietnam role published in 1968--I don't know what that is, but I doubt
Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it was the type of thing--those trips, Clark Clifford, people like that, they would occasionally--and I don't know whether Wheeler did so or not; I don't recall-- Tape 1 of 1, Side 2 G: All right, sir. You were saying that these special high-ranking visitors
Oral history transcript, Frank Ikard, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in your area? I: Yes sir, very closely. F: Was he sort of the Senate advocate for it? I: Yes, yes very much. I know on occasion--I remember very well on some of the things the reference I guess it was to the Garza-Little Elm Reservoir
Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • weeks at that job and the French would immediately send them home. G: Why would they do that? L: Well, you know, to get them away. G: They figured they'd sold out? L: They'd sold out, yes. And a lot of them were telling me things. I finally
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he'd come home, all during the winter months we'd have fresh corn and fresh string beans, black-eyed peas, et cetera. G: Do you remember what part of 1959 you went to work for them, whether it was the late part of the year? 0: Yes, it was in the fall
Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • employed in Texas, who had lived with them in Texas, I guess. He brought her to Washington, and he said it used to make him feel so bad that when they went home for the summer--this was while he was a senator--this lady, whose name I used to know-- G
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ." And if they fire at Quemoy, I want to know it imme- I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Now, have you got instant communications with my motorcade and everything?" be hooked Up." I said, "That can I in fact had not intended to be wired right in. he said, "Get
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of my home town, which I moved to from Easley. I was born in Easley, which is the main road of the Southern Railroad. During the campaign in 1960 when Lyndon Johnson was the vice presidential nominee, we stopped the train in Easley for him to go up
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 I would say--the next day was Thanksgiving, as I remember it. Perhaps I'm wrong, maybe the next day wasn't Thanksgiving, but it was that weekend. And I remember getting home in the middle of the afternoon
Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • you are now. T: Babes in the woods, and had children and my mother was with us. There were just many personal things they did for us; it's just almost impossible to enumerate them alL \' They had us in their home so often. hard time when we first
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson before you came into the White House? H: No, sir, I didn't run into him until I came down to Washington with President Eisenhower, which would have been in January of 1953. F: Right. How soon did you become aware of him? Do you have any clear
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to their homes on leave for the Tet holidays. The propaganda put out by the enemy, the captured PWs, defectors, and captured documents made very clear what the enemy objectives were. believed they could achieve these objectives. And they apparently had First
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • back home or something like that, he was always the one to call us in and make it all right when you really needed something and you were at your wits' ends. G: Now the public speaking class was separate and distinct from the debate team. is that right
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in a six months' said, "No, sir, I don't . More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh time limit ." . And I I think it will seem abrupt to many of your colleagues, and I think it just ties your hands against events
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • where you could really see the good that came when these youngsters went to school; how far along they were as compared to where they would have been, where they probably couldn't speak the language and were still speaking Spanish, for example, at home
Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • much at home, as everybody else was. President Johnson seemed at ease around me. He didn't have to act like he was somebody else, and I didn't either. He seemed to be at ease. I think he trusted me at this point. I felt good about this. These were nice
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. JORDEN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Jorden's office in the Federal Building, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You are William J. Jorden, and your last public service
Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM H. SULLIVAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: l~ashington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're William Sullivan. Through the major part of the Johnson Administration you served as ambassador
Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this. No That was the rule that was presumed to be inviolate because it deprived a greater area of television than it might serve in its home location. The rule, as far as I know--and it was accepted at the time--was that there had never been an exception granted
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • called back by the Secretary of Defense at the time of that crisis. And there was a task force that was set up, wasn't there, Bob? B: W: Yes, sir. The task force was set up. I think that Sam Berger, who is now Deputy Ambassador in Saigon, was in charge
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROGER HILSMAN INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Hilsman's office at Columbia University, New York Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. your last official You're Roger Hilsman, and position with the government
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • about it. S: Not with that crowd. G: No? S: No. G: What did you do? S: Went home. G: And you were skeptical of this whole operation? Not in the Pentagon. No. Did not. How long were you in thi s pos it ion? S: Well, I got out
Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • no contact with Johnson whatsoever. M: It was strictly a Connally-- L: Strictly, yes, sir. The 1962 Connally campaign? Now, we had some Johnson people in the organization, but the truth is, it was not a Johnson organization. We didn't take over
  • ; briefings for Senate Foreign Relations Committee; efforts as ambassador; relations with Ayub Khan; role as Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam; team of Bunker and Locke; manpower mobilization; pacification program; political atmosphere at home; changes
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: CHARLES S. MURPHY INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Murphy's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall when you first met Lyndon Johnson or had any knowledge of him? M: No, I do not. I came to Washington about
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on, which primarily was getting more money for the dams and getting the lCRA organized the way he wanted it, and REA. Those were his main things right at that time, trying to get every farm and home electrified. A lot of days he would come into Austin
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • party remarks, "I've got to go home and write a speech for the President." L: Yes. F: Now then, the President had been a speech teacher and a debate coach in his brief teaching career; he'd been a college editor. Did he have an idea that he
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • military career as an enlisted man in the artillery, actually serving in your home state of Texas at Camp Bowie of all things. Right before my unit was scheduled to go to Europe in World War II, I got a telegram from Washington announcing that I was being
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that for you. I don't have it now. And I may have it somewhere in my file. But you know when you come home, and you turn over a lot of your files to the incoming congressman, you try to keep out that which was personal because--written to you in confidence
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • friends ,.,7ho hL·d played together, so when I·]e got up there we found that George and Joanne had just purchased a home in McLean, Virginia. ~fuen I\'e started looking for a house, \·le found one about half-a-block from them clOim the street
  • compared to LBJ; buying a house in McLean, VA; how Temple’s work affected his home life and LBJ’s compensation for long work hours; trips to the Ranch and other Presidential vacations; LBJ’s relationship with Marvin Watson; LBJ’s Cabinet; a reorganization
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was a good-natured guy. He wasn't smart like I was writing for the newspaper, the College Star, and I had this in there--what I did was buy a joke book and substitute a college student's name because then they took the papers and sent them home because
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HARRY McPHERSON INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. McPherson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 B: This is the continuation of the interview with Harry McPherson. Sir, since we last talked, there has been published in Newsweek on March 10
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • communities. I'd try to send it air mail. next day or two. home. He would get that letter the I always had instructions to send it to his He'd get the letter, and then early in the morning he'd get up--he was always an early riser--he'd take the letter
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Gonzales. there at Welly Hopkins' home on a Su nday. We met Daddy and Mother and I drove and had Sunday dinner with him down to Corpus Christi and met Roy Miller and then K1eberg. was all over with. in. And that was all there was to it. It The next
Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or bevel off the rough edges rather than to face the fact that a mistake or error in judgment had taken place. To that extent, the Kennedy people that continued in the Johnson Administration had something of a divided loyalty. B: Actually, sir, you have