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Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Quill -- I -- 10 Q: Well, when he ran -- we decided it at a meeting in Austin on Sunday afternoon. G: Where was that meeting, sir? Was it at his house on San Gabriel Street
Oral history transcript, Morris Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in East Texas. I forget who--I think Dan and somebody else went over there to see him and got the injunction. I came on home the next day and from then on, it was just legal matters and, as you know, the history, when the Justice [Hugo] Black, I believe
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said, "Yes, sir, it's normal." He said, "Well, Eisenhower has just called me and wanted to know why his wasn't normal." (Laughter) So that's sort of a side issue. Dr. White used to tell that story himself. But I think, in reflecting on his heart attack
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1977 INTERVIEI4EE: WELLY K. HOPKINS INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Hopkins' home in Culpeper, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 [Interview begins abruptly and first comments are inaudible] H: You know Lyndon was susceptible, as I recall,in some
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • [WILLIAM] GULLEY INTERVIEWER: STEPHEN GOODELL November 29, 1968 Go: Sir, I'd like to start out by asking you if you could tell me when you first came into contact with the President? What were the circumstances surrounding that? Gu: That was in May
Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • : This was in Fort Worth? G: Yes, sir. HD: The Halls, and they had a cheering section. He's a banker. G: What Hall is this? SD: Walter Hall. HD: Walter Hall. SD: A good friend of ours. G: Where is he from? SD: Dickinson. G: Dickinson. SD
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- II -- 4 Now here comes the next [election]. war and all that. Of course, Lyndon went to You've got enough about him and [Douglas] MacArthur and all that there. But here comes 1947. We were working on 1948, you
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIEl1EE: HAYNE ASPINALL INTERVIEWER: JOE FRANTZ PLACE: Hr. Aspinall's home in Palisade, Colorado Tape 1 of 1 A: My Congressiona"l District--Colorado's 4th--consisted of what is known as western Colorado. That is, everything west of the Con
  • district of Denver; Boyhood Home legislation; role of Lady Bird with National Park Service Advisory Review Commission; appointment of son (Owen Aspinall) as governor of Samoa; island elections of governors; Saline Water Bill; National Park System and Wild
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Not in quite such a hurry to get home . B: That's right . I was not married then, Joe . I'd work in my office until 6 :30, sometime a little later, and then I'd stop over there and have a drink with Mr . Rayburn and visit with him . There were probably
Oral history transcript, Ray Roberts, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? R: Yes, sir. G: What was your role in that campaign? R: Whatever I could do to run errands for him. G: Did you travel with him? R: No no, because I was still working for NYA all the time. As a matter of fact, I had a new Oldsmobile and he
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • remember, which lasted only for a month or two. G: OCO [Office of Civil Operations]? R: OCO, that's right. I worked with some of the staff people on the other side, particularly Frank Wisner and Len Maynard. G: What was the second name, sir? R
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , sir, I wanted to ask you about that. To back up into the '40 IS, even if you had not met Mr. Johns·--a had you formed an opinion about him? Had you classified him as a Congressman? M: Yes, I had. I was a pretty conservative young man, and it seemed
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh V. Dr SALLE February 4, 1969 B: This is the interview with Governor Michael V. DiSalle. Sir, if I may, subject to your additions and corrections, just outline very briefly your background. You were born in 1908 in Toledo; law
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: RAMSEY CLARK INTERVIEWER: HARRI BAKER PLACE: His home in Falls Church, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 B: This is a continuation of the interview with Ramsey Clark. Sir, last time, we carried the story up to the summer of 1966, which was another
Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Aiken -- 6 at the time that Lyndon Johnson took the oath of office. M: Yes, sir, I think that's about correct. A: And it was predicted that they would be coming home before long. M
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In 139. He had an office there. In the Co-op. [Pedernales Electric] From September 15 when I went to "vork until the first of the year, we worked there. And then the boys drove up to Washington and I spent Christmas with Bird at her home in Karnack
Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • INTERVIHJEE: BEN F. CRIDER INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON PLACE: Mr. Crider's home in Austin, Texas Tape l of 1 B: Where are you from, Mr. Crider? C: I was raised in Johnson City, Texas. B: I understand that you and Mr. Johnson were boyhood
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , left my family in New York City; I commuted between Washington and New York every weekend. I had a small apartment across from the State Department on 21st Street, and I'd be there during the week. Friday night I'd go home and come back out Monday
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 3 (III), 3/3/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: MELVIN C. WINTERS INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Winter's office, Johnson City, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: All right sir, I have a note that in 1946 you went to Burnet to straighten out some talk that was going on that you were
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in reply was dated September 17, saying as soon as he gets home and gets his bearings he'll be talking to me and so on. F: Did you tell him what about? C: Somewhere between there and January of 1960 I recall, this is ten years later of course
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • from General Taylor, now chief of staff, U.S. Army. He wanted to know if there was any cogent reason why I shouldn't go to South Vietnam to relieve, or to replace General Mike, or Iron Mike, O'Daniel. G: Excuse me, sir, you called him Iron Mike. H
Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Miss Mary McLeod Bethune were great friends. G: The NYA I think it was. H: NYA. He had met Downs, Karl Downs, who was the late president of Huston-Tillotson College and he knew several other black college presidents. He had visited in the homes
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the committee. If you will, going down the list of members and sort of homing in on what each person contributed in terms of expertise or special interest. K: It was divided in half. You had members who served because of their ex officio positions
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --I--3 I said fine. He said, "Do you want me to come downtown?" "Oh no, sir. I'll come me up there to see you." see him. I said, So I went up there to He said, "I made a commitment to you, and I find out that it's downright embarrassing to me
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on a fairly large number of occasions . M: Would you like me to recount these? Yes, sir, and if you can, tell me a little bit about "how come and what ." � � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Mrs. Johnson, correct? C: Yes, sir. The second trip, in the late summer of 1966. This trip also included a visit to Denver, where Mrs. Johnson planted a tree on the campus of Denver University. F: Why did she go back? C: I feel because of her
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I NTERVI El-JEE: JOHN A. BAKER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Baker1s home, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 2 G: Let s continue today talking about your work with the [I,tar on Poverty] I task force. met. I want to ask you
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • hour a day separation mill. The boys are wild to get home, and they are not interested in serious thoughtful counseling on vocational and educational matters at that juncture. We haven't quite figured out how to solve that problem. P: In other words
Oral history transcript, Kenneth E. BeLieu, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ordnance Arsenal from the federal government to the state of Texas." This arsenal had been a bone of contention for some time, and I said, "No, sir." Well, he didn't really appreciate somebody saying no, sir to him, and he reached out--he is about three
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • were. In later years, he even knew who his supporters were back home, and he had a pretty good idea. That doesn't mean that he always calculated, rightly, their reactions. F: Yes. H: But he knew all of them, pretty good descriptions of them. F
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • some of the homes down there, although it was available to them--electricity was available to them--they were still using the kerosene lamp and I'm quite sure that nine-tenth's of the kitchen tables down there were still covered with oil cloth. F
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was mixed . I was disappointed, and Mrs . Bryant and I shortly left the room . F: Did you then come on back home? B: Oh, no, I stayed for the rest of the convention . F: Just sort of went through the motions? B: Went through the motions . F: Did
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES R. JONES INTERVIEWER: DOROTHY PIERCE McSWEENEY PLACE: Hay-Adams Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 M: You are presently practicing law in your home town in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and are just up here on a business trip in Washington, D.C
Oral history transcript, Henry Hall Wilson, interview 1 (I), 4/11/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in, or did you go on home? W: Yes, that's what I said. lawn. We met the helicopter when it came in on the south That's when that picture was taken. F: Right. W: We sat around and talked. F: About what? W:' About the event of course. F: Did you
  • congressmen for a vote; red-tagging memos to LBJ; logrolling and congressional favors; the problems in passing home rule and beautification; Otto Passman; LBJ gets Senator Byrd to commit to hearings on the tax cut.
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: R. CONRAD COOPER INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Mr. Cooper's office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin, sir, by identifying you for the transcriber's purpose. You're R. Conrad Cooper and during the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 1 1/2hours-incomplete P: Mr. Carter, how did you first come in contact with Lyndon Baines Johnson? About what date? C: Miss Pierce, back in 1937 I was a student at the Schreiner Institute up at Kerrville. However, my home was in Smithville, Bastrop
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • has been your home now since the middle 1930's? H: Yes. F: When did you first get to know President Johnson? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh February 14, 1968 B: This is February 14, 1968. We are talking with Mr. Ray E. Lee in his home in Austin, Texas. B: Mr. Lee, first of all, tell us something about your background. L: Well, Mr. Bolton, I came to the University
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: JONATHAN F. LADD INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Colonel Ladd's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 2 G: All right, sir. What was your vantage point during the events that later became known as the Tet Offensive? You were
Oral history transcript, Walter Washington and Bennetta Washington, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the hospital and I was just coming home--it really hit the adolescent youngsters at that school in a very terrible way. They came in and took Luci out. You know, at that point there was such horror about the incident itself, everybody was just so completely