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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was constant headlines, the fall back, fall back, fall back of the Nationalist China under Chiang Kai-Shek. The phrase one used was "old China hands." There were certain senators, there were certain lobbyists, and good friend, Tommy Corcoran was among them, who
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for that function. When I mentioned earlier the émigrés--as you may know, on the Taiwan scene, which was recent history, there was the whole third-force phenomenon. Somebody has to talk to the third force, which was neither Chiang Kai-shek nor Mao Tse-tung
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in Taipei, the crowds were almost uncontrollable with their wild enthusiasm. And this had a psychological effect. Chiang Kai Shek made a statement at one point that this trip reversed the whole tide in Southeast Asia. B: This may be an almost impossible
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • theme of the Chinese representatives in the Warsaw talks was always that we must abandon the Chiang Kai-shek clique. We must turn Formosa over to the mainland, and get our forces out of Asia. So it was a very stiff set of talks without any real give
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • coming across the straits to take the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Humphrey was very skeptical about the commitment of American forces in that area and raised questions about the corruption of the Chiang Kai-shek regime in Taiwan. He also was a very
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 21 (XXI), 8/10/1981-8/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson -- XXI -- 23 the federal government. It was really a transition year. There was lots going on in Europe and in Asia, although somehow or another we didn't pay much attention to Asia in those days. G: Now China was about to fall or Chiang Kai
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • [William F.] Knowland [R.-Calif.] had made one of his typical P.R. speeches for Chiang Kai Shek and China, the necessity for maintaining our strong ally in Asia, the Republic of China; and Senator Johnson had spoken very favorably about Senator Knowland's
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • cocktail parties before the major sitdown dinner. Well, I gravitated to the Washington Post party first because I had so many old friends there. And standing at the entrance was Kay Graham, publisher of the Washington Post¸ and I chatted her for a few
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 12 (XII), 7/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contacted Kay Graham and put a responsibility on Kay and her associates to work particularly the Republican side of the House to assist us in acquiring signatures. We enlisted the Washington Post as a lobbying entity in this instance, which of course
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to figure out the gate arrangement for the White House precincts off of the square, nor have they done anything about the traffic along 15th Street. I hadn't realized that it was as sketchy as it was. I had lunch at Kay Halle's. Kay is a generous
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because there were a lot of men who would come to town on important business and not bring their wives. So we often sat down to a group where I was the only woman or maybe eight and just two women, or three. Kay Graham had a party honoring Oveta Hobby. Kay
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the outstanding women of America. I worked with Polly Shackleton, Kay Halle, Ellie Israel, and four or five other women. We put together a list of approximately thirty or thirty-five outstanding women. They endorsed Johnson, wrote letters, and spoke on local
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Palmer -- I -- 2 G: So you had not assumed command of the airborne corps. P: No. G: I see. P: There was Kay, sitting in Quarters One. (Laughter) And a fellow named Jim Lawrie, commander
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • tragedy for this country that he had the nervous flaw that destroyed him. At any rate, going back to what we were talking about, President Johnson was well aware of this episode. More or less in memory of it, he asked Kay Graham and my wife and me
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the streets, the whole notion of politics became irrelevant. So there was a congealing process, a coming together of the Commission, except at the end. At the end, people like Tex Thornton, on the one hand, Kay Peden, and others, felt that the prescriptions
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -15- he talked to Kay Graham. M: I was going to ask you if that caused a bad feeling or any problems for the working reporters, the fact that they knew he was a good friend of Katharine
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : That is where he had put that because it was a good place for a signature. H: And who is this over here? Ardis Milcox [?]? Wilcox [?]? D: Ardis is-- P: I don't know. D: Okay. P: Now, Delia Kay Agnell was my first grade school teacher in Big Spring. Big
  • Library; signers of the organ, including Delia Kay Agnell, Salina Lewis Aylor, Cass Ballenger, Jimmy and Dot Banks, Joe T. Banks, James Barcia, Jim Barlow, Tom Barlow, Doug Barnard, Ben Barnes, Barbara Basken, Jim Baylor [?], Bunny and Ray Bell, John S
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of men's [projects] and Mrs. Katherine Taylor, who headed the women's work for WPA, was there. I think she's gone, tooo G: Mary Kay Taylor, was that-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kay [went]. We stayed at the Taft Hotel, which was really a very inexpensive hotel, to put it politely. We did all sorts of things. We rode the tour bus and went all over town, went down into the real slums of New York and went past Grant's Tomb
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 10 (X), 1/25/1979-1/26/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Bob Jackson, Kay and Arthur Perry. It was in this year that our own staff changed, but I believe that change took place in the fall when we returned. We knew that Sherman [Birdwell] was going to be leaving and we were looking around for someone else
Oral history transcript, Llewellyn B. Griffith, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/15/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • confused. Yes, Alexander. I was thinking of a young man in my office. Kay Alexander. MG: Did you get any insight into Lyndon Johnson's attitude toward blacks and Mexican-Americans during this phase of his life? LG: Yes, I know he was entirely
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • one I had was--have you read that account, the Graham memorandum? F: Yes. R: Teddy White. I think that is pretty accurate, as I remember, because Graham sat-F: I have a copy of that. I got it from Kay Graham. R: No, this was Phil Graham. F
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • speech. And by the way, Kay Graham was in the audience, and Chal [Chalmers] Roberts. Kay was just down there visiting or 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a lovely green dress with a gold-embroidered jacket on it, and I was downstairs as the guests were coming in and her dress walked in on Kay Graham--Mrs. Philip Graham of the Washington Post--I ran upstairs and said, "You may want to change." B: Did she
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , would come through, and I would see him. Kay [Katharine] Graham came out. No, I had no particular problem with them, and I have no particular criticism of them. They operated in a very difficult world, and we got along fine, we really did. G: How
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -- 18 B: Any parties I went to were people the President--when he was sore at them he put them in this circle, and when he wasn't sore at them they came to candlelight dinners--Joe Alsop or Kay Graham. I'm talking about people I happened to be most
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • around and show her these parks, and she did. But then, we had many Washingtonians who helped pick up the ball--Kay Graham, the owner of the Washington Post, got her foundation to give some school the improvement of playgrounds; and the newspapers
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • hell broke loose. Phones were ringing; he was calling Kay Graham in one place, Senator Morse LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library