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Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • was pretty busy, I guess, with his debate team and all of that. A: Yes. B: Did he spend much time at home? A: You mean there at Hawthorne? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was opposed to it. Finally Albert said to me, "Well, just think, you'll be there six months and home six months." Well, that sounded better so I went on that assumption that that would be carried out. Well, it was everything else but that. It lasted the first
Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , that had those canvas tops on it. Old Ford touring-- MW: Model T. W: Model T, I guess. But I didn't go in the house; I came on home. I did not go in the house and see what happened. (Laughter) G: Did you hear anything about it after that? W: No, I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 18 (XVIII), 12/18/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -plated plums" and said it would be helpful to him on future votes to be in the position of extending the invitation to Mexico City to Mansfield, Dirksen, [George] Aiken and [Paul] Douglas and [Joseph] Montoya, obviously. I had been aware of it and I would
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • legislation, we had proposed it in 1966. We could not get it out of committee in the Senate because of the fact that Robertson essentially--Senator [A. Willis] Robertson--wanted a gutted bill, and Paul Douglas on the other side wanted a bill that was much
Oral history transcript, O.B. Summy, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: O.B. Summy INTERVIEWER: Eric F. Goldman PLACE: President Johnson’s Boyhood Home G: Mr. Summy, I am going to ask you some questions about the trip to California. Do you remember the year and the month it started? S: Well, it was on the 3rd
Oral history transcript, Eugene McDermott and Margaret Milam McDermott, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEES: MR. AND INTERVIEWER: DAVID McCOMB PLACE: The McDermotts' EUGENE McDERMOTT (MARGARET) r~RS. home~ 4701 Drexel, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 DM: Well, first of all, I think we need to know something about you two. Where do you come from
Oral history transcript, Ralph Moreland, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Right. We have sixteen places in all. IfJc: All right. M: Back in the middle thirties. [James V.J When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson, then? He and Mrs. Johnson, and Governor Allred and Mrs. Allred were guests in my home, my father's
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , with [Clark] Clifford and [Nicholas] Katzenbach and Wirtz, David Ginsburg, [John?] Douglas, and the President in and out. And it was here that we talked about the issue of supporting [Wayne] Morse's resolution to break the strike. Clifford saying that you need
Oral history transcript, Lloyd Bentsen, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? B: It was after the election in '48. He used to have B. A. and me over to his home on Sundays a lot. I can recall that he used to always want to listen to Drew Pearson. Drew Pearson carried a lot of influence in Washington at that time. [Johnson
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at this dinner and said, "How long does it take to fly back home? back home tonight." I'll go And of course that became the 1ead story for all of us: "Khrushchev threatens to go home because he can't go to Disneyland." It was like some little kid saying, "I'm
Oral history transcript, Thomas J. Dunlap, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • in school, they did live down there so the children could live at home and go to school. In fact, one time, if I recall correctly, there were three of Lyndon Johnson's brothers and sisters in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the First Lady. ton, D.C. We are in her home at 4836 Van Ness, N.W., in Washing- And this is Dorothy Pierce McSweeny. Mrs. Gonella, I have some dates and in our previous [pre-interview] discussion you elaborated on them, but let me give them now and tell
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: W. R. POAGE INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Poage's home in Rosslyn, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 G: Let's begin, Representative Poage, with a meeting I think took place in 1938 with President Rooseve1t at the White House, when a number
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HORNA8AY -- I -- 6 vvanted to announce, you know. Lyndon's idea, as I've heard it, was that he could do better by depending on his friends right in the Senate who had influence back home. work out
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • been there awhile, he insisted that I move out CO his home, which I did. Bill Deason was living there then. He was in the Navy and stationed in washington and so he and I shared a room together out at the Congressman's home off of Connecticut Avenue
Oral history transcript, Clarence S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the post office there, which was a small fourth-class post office probably paying some fifty dollars a month or something. She had three boys, and we lived there in Johnson City until the boys all left home to go to college. She remained living there until
  • Biographical information; Redford's career history; school experience with LBJ in Johnson City; LBJ's involvement in sports; basketball rules and customs in Redford's youth; going swimming on LBJ's relatives' property; LBJ's Boyhood Home; playing
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, and then when at home, they moved him home, we gave him--I guess the first week in August, I don't know, something like that, that's when I called J. Edgar Hoover who lived across the street and all of his neighbors there to meet the ambulance when they brought
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason and Jeanne Deason, interview 6 (VI), 10/24/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • first there? JD: Well, the first time I met her I went to a dinner party at their home in Washington, D.C. I was in the WAVES [Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service] at the time and he [Deason] was my escort. Of course, I was awed at the fact
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and, by their communications and constantly exhorting the other POWs to behave themselves, are responsible for our people coming home in good shape. You recall earlier we were talking about the caliber of our people. I had the occasion to be associated with one of our guys who
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But we first went to Africa. aide on that trip. I went along. 8ill Moyers was sort of the presidential 1.4e came back through Paris. He vrent to Geneva, and then to Paris, when he had some NATO exercises to do; then we went on home. That vIas our
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , he came home and said, "There is a notice up at the post office. Go take the 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Jr. and the riots here in Washington. Tell me about that. Is that a vivid memory in your--? C: Well, the riots are a vivid memory in that at that time--of course, working in the legislative branch, we were entitled to keep our home state plates
Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • Clifford's national and industrial security forum talk some months back. In particular, for example, there is the research and development on advanced housing. Here, because the Department of Defense builds thousands of homes for service people each year
Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • and pointed out that I thought that it was a very good thing for the State of Texas; and I think that history will vindicate their judgment. I have made a pretty good study of the homes of the various Presidents of the United States, and you know about 85 per
Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • she says, "Wait until Jess comes downstairs, and we'll ask him." Jess usually found a way. And I asked him, and he said, "Well, I'll tell you, I have a pair of mules at home that I don't need. If I can sell those mules, you can have the money." I often
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me which I now understand. I have a picture of myself sitting on a table with the President and Wirtz and Connor over in that Executive Office Building at home and that's why we have that. It might not hurt to see if [Yoichi] Okamoto took any pictures
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , and I worked at home. Are you interested in knowing what I did? B: Yes, yes I am. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BESS ABELL INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER PLACE: Mrs. Abell's home in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: We had gotten last time into the White House years and just to sort of take areas at random, once the shock and the travail of moving
Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • to Johnson City and Stonewall, where her folks lived. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin had a big two-story home. They were most generous and they told my mother to come there and stay with them until she could decide what to do. It was while she was living
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • with the American-Statesman, and I had a young son then so I was at home. I stayed home and didn't work. We lived rather a quiet life. Then, the World War II came along and Stuart joined the marine corps and went through Quantico. Then we were sent to Atlanta
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in their back-home activities. This would be coordinated through John Stewart who had joined me and had been on my staff at the national committee. Also, there was discussion of direct involvement of the congressmen and senators in the campaign. The meeting
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the home in Washington. Do you remember that? Sometime in late 1942 I think or early 1943. R: Yes, I remember it fairly well. They lived in Woodley Park Tower and then they moved across the street, and I can't think of the name of it right this minute
  • The Johnsons buying their home at 4921 Thirtieth Place in Washington D.C. and the layout of the house; LBJ moving to a bigger office space in the Old House Office Building in 1943; LBJ's work as chairman of a subcommittee to investigate Navy
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it. The State Department was not so sure, and I don't think the Administration--they finally--. Late in 1960, you'll remember Secretary Anderson went to Germany and tried to get the dependents, get some of the troops home, or get the dependents home. time
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for legislation. One time I went and, as you said, sat next to him at that party, and Lyndon later found out about it, and he didn't get home till about ten o'clock working hard on a bill that Senator Green wanted passed, that he had left in Lyndon's hands saying
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • became President. This was in December of 1963, soon after he had assumed office following the death of President Kennedy, tions, I believe, from I had been home for a few weeks on consulta- Sofia. I was anxious to see President Johnson LBJ
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had some political solidarity of support back home. G: Do you think that from his meeting with Daley he bought any time from Daley, he kept Daley from jumping ship on Vietnam or at least being nominally supportive? J: I don't know. That would
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in attendance because they stayed home so much, and they visited. There was no requirement that they stay in school all the time. We had a good music department started by the young teacher from San Antonio who was quite talent_ed with the piano and voice
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • visited his home for breakfast one Sunday before the national convention. I'm sure that as Governor I had met with him on several occasions in connection with California problems. I have no distinct recollection of meeting him during the period I
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • -- XLIV -- 12 And that was home in Austin for quite some years. Actually, this was October and November of [19]60, and it was really home until [19]80--that is, home in Austin. Home was always the Ranch after we bought it, but our pied-à-terre in Austin