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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , and Lyndon had thrust upon him, in July of 1955, more work than he should have done. He should have been home mending fences, tending to his own re-election. And he had been trying to fill two roles, as majority whip and substituting for Lyndon, so we bore
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • over this particular issue? T: No. Are we still talking about the time in 1957? G: Yes, sir. T:· t>{o. G; Of course that brings us to a very big year, in 1961. T: Which I recorded very thoroughly in Swords and Plowshares. G: Yes, sir
Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the miliary service. OM: Then you went into the Army for awhile? HM: I went into the Marine Corps in May of 144 and stayed there until the conclusion of the war in the Pacific. DM~ Did you go into the Pacific--? HM: Yes sir, I was at Okinawa in radar
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wanted it that way, Jim,” which I didn't of course. Nobody else in Texas did. I was told second hand after I moved to Washington--but coming from very responsible sources--that the night after Jack Kennedy was buried there was a meeting at a big home
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1974 INTERVIEWEE: MARIE FEHMER CHIARODO INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Ms. Chiarodo's home, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: I think when you left off, you had finished the first day of the presidency. Yo u had not moved into the White
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERV I a'IEE: FREDERICK G. DUTTON HnERVIE~JER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, let me mention some things here because I think they ought to be in the transcript. 0: Right. B: You were the Organizing Director
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BUFORD ELLINGTON INTERVIEWER: T.H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Ellington's office in the State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee Tape 1 of 2 B: Sir, if I may read just a little background material. You were born in Mississippi and attended
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a home and a livable place, a comfortable place. F: Did the girls ever volunteer any ideas to you? W: No, I don't believe so. F: It was primarily Mrs. Johnson all the way through? W: Only a fe\v connections [with the girls]. I think I was called
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that they used cavalry in that battle . In the late evening a few times a week that the Congress­ man could get home, if he would agree not to do it on Saturday or Sunday, because he played polo on Saturday and Sunday, [why not let him] exercise those ponies
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , when it opened? G: Yes. A lot M: They were all NYA people .. There was Connally and Syers--do you know Ed Syers? o~ them were NYA people. And the one who bought the funeral home, the Cook funeral home. G: That was Sherman Birdwell I think
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said, "O. J., when I hired you I thought you told me that you could type." I said, "Mr. Johnson, what I told you was I had taken typing." He said, "Do you know what an old Oliver typewriter is?" I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "Well, your typing looks like
Oral history transcript, William B. Camp, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • -second. Some have been colorful; some have been listless; some have been innovators like Mr. Saxon and then some have been controversial like Mr. Saxon. M: But you have been the first career professional. c: Yes sir, that is correct, as far as I know
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • him in January of 1935. I started work in Washington on January 3, 1935 as secretary to Congressman A. L. Ford of the Fourth Mississippi District, whose home is here in Ackerman. I went to work for him six days before I was twenty-one years old
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • when I was at the University [of Texas], Father asked me if I was going to bring any guests home, because they liked me to. I said, well, I was going to bring Bird. "Oh, she's not a guest," he said, "she's part of the family." the way they felt about
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . But it was routine in the sense, as I just told you, that at the same time there were many, many ships at sea worldwide doing the same thing. G: Yes, sir. Is it fair, as has been done, to characterize the patrol of the Maddox as part of a program of--pressures
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVID~EE : GLEN P. vJILSON INTERVIEWER: T. HARRI BAKER PLACE: Dr. Wilson's office, Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, let me introduce you here briefly. You were born in Waco, have a bachelors
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 21, 1968 B: This is the interview with Mr. John A. Schnittker, the Under Secretary of Agriculture. Sir, would you start by outlining your career up to the time of your appointment as Under Secretary here? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and to Lyndon, which she wasn't, that by working it that way, you'd--well, like this dedication of the Boyhood Home here. Charlie Boatner asked me to make the arrangements for her. At first she didn't want to have anything to do with it. So I decided to skip
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIHJEE: GEORGE L. MEHREN INTERVIEHER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mr. Mehren's office, The Agribusiness Council, Inc., Park Avenue, New York City Tape 1 of 2 B: This is an interview with Dr. George L. Mehren. Sir, let me summarize your
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, William J. Crockett, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it except just to--well, I think always there was an undercurrent on those trips of awareness of what the press might be saying about the trip and about him back home . So there was always a lot of pressure to create the impression, and � � LBJ
Oral history transcript, Payne Rountree, interview 1 (I), undated, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . Done by Eric F. Goldman in Mr. Rountree’s home, 1807 Breckenridge Street. Austin, Texas G: Mr. Rountree, we want to get all of the details about the trip to California. Will you tell us, first of all, how many of you went? R: Five of us. G
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • himself that day. Tape 2 P: You were telling about Bobby Baker. Mc: Yes. Now as to when it was that he found out that the case was coming up, was tipped off about it • . • It was of course well after everybody had gotten home before I found out about
Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No, sir. G: Is that right? Can you elaborate on that? M: Well, as long as I can remember in our home-- You ever know of any rivalry? I'm sure he did. Neither were the McElroys either. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a speech, the national education speech here in Cotulla. He called me first here one Sunday afternoon about twelve or one o'clock at home. I talked to his private secretary who told me that Lyndon Johnson wanted to make a speech on Monday, and he
Oral history transcript, Norman M. Clapp, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 6, 1968 B: This is the interview with Norman Clapp, the Administrator of the Rural Electric Administration. Sir, to begin, back in the early stages of your career you were associated with Congress for a good many
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 2 Presently down the hall came an affable, self-assured, nice-looking man and said, "I'd like to go in and see Congressman Johnson, please." And I said, "Oh, no, you can't." I said, "What is your name, sir?" He looked sort of flustered, and he said
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • information on you, sir? I: . Yes. l'd like to add that at this moment I'm no longer on the Public Works Committee. I left that Committee and I'm now on the Commerce LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: LINDLEY BECKWORTH INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: Mr. Beckworth's home near Gladewater, Texas Tape 1 of 2 M: I've just been talking to Mr. Beckworth about the use of this information, and I've explained that the tape and the transcript
  • Home congressional office facilities; family background; father's county school superintendent campaign; 1928 Democratic convention in Houston; college education data; 1936 race for state representative; introduction to LBJ in 1936; 1938 campaign
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] spent three days in that campaigning and by the last day, I had a very rough throat, got to where I could hardly speak, and I came home on Saturday night, went to bed. no better; in fact, if anything, I was worse. The next morning I was So my wife
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: WILLIAM J. HOPKINS INTERVIEWER: THOMAS H. BAKER National Archives Conference Room, Washington, D.C. PLACE: Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, I know that you came to the White House in 1931, in October I believe, and have been there since. Could you
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • home and they put the water LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh "O ne
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't want to leave her alone, and I used to take her to the White House. She would sit in my office and just watch what was going on. She had never been in the United States before. She showed my wife a letter she was writing home to her parents
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: J. WILLIS HURST INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Dr. Hurst's office, Atlanta, Georgia Tape 1 of 2 B: We're now up to the presidential years, sir. You were just telling me before I turned on the machine that your personal relationship
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? H: No, sir. When I returned from the United States after being called home, the press were eager for a press conference, and were very insistent; so I decided I would hold one in my home the afternoon after I returned at the residence
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • got home that evening and Catherine, . my wife, told me, "Tony, that man some day is going to be president of the United States ." I said, "Why? What makes you think so?" She said, "I don't know, I can just feel it . When I hear him talk
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in domestic, it was only a special level of the French populace that had an understanding of what Johnson stood for. I know when I got back in March 1969--I took the long way home from Washington to Paris--Lucie Faure, whose husband Edgar had been Prime
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • only have that you stayed for three weeks and that you came home. And he drove John's car home, and that Nellie Brill and Sugar Crites came back with him from that meeting. WJ: Daddy, you started to say that when you drove up to Washington
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • some deals over there, and then we'll have dinner together and come on back." We had a very enjoyable evening, and we got accomplished in San Antonio what we wanted to accomplish. We got home that eveni ng and Catherine, my wife, told me, "Tany
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JM~ES INTERVIEWER: T. HARRISON BAKER PLACE: Mayor Tate's office, City Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania H. TATE Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, do you recall when you first met Lyndon Johnson? T: I first met Lyndon Johnson at the nation's Capitol