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- cent surtax that he really felt was needed to control inflation. Do you have any insights or recollections of his efforts here, the people he met with? R: It's not the kind of thing I worked with. Like I said, if I had the night reading list
- The day and night of March 31, 1968; meeting with RFK; HHH's bid for the Presidency; MLK assassination; Fortas nomination; RFK assassination; 1968 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's night reading
- . every night. and going t:l Reading--going to bed with a "Who Done It" Reading the same sentence on page 13 every night sleep. Weld get to bed apout 3--this is when we were on t:.'-le trail. Mr . Johnson did this every night. Mary Rather and Dorot
- into that little breakfast room in The Elms with the little circular table, and we had dinner. And the only peo- ple present--I must say I've read over the years of who was there that night, and it would make enough for a grand ballroom. F: A real state dinner
- a Roman Catholic, bringing it to your attention!" B: Do you recall who that was? H: Yes, that was Walter Jenkins, which I will later develop. senator read the letter and told Mr. Jenkins that, '~aybe So the you'd better check the writer
- there had been no previous maneuvering in that direction. H: No. F: Nothing to give you any lead. H: No. F: Did you think that the threatened liberal revolt was serious or do you From all I read and heard there was none. It came on rather suddenly
- moved to Washington, D.C., arriving, I believe, on about Sunday, the twenty-third of July 1967. So I was involved with them on Sunday and on Sunday night, trying in that personal way that we all have of getting settled and getting reunited with my
- a month before that--and I had to get my affairs in order with my station in Ohio. I got everything I could get on Khrushchev and started to read about his life, his politics, his biography and all the current affairs I could put together. You have
- in for a long night and perhaps a long aftermath . The report of his shooting was confirmed to be the grave wound and then soon thereafter a fatal wound . By one of those accidents of history, a representative of the Co.=unity Relations Service, Jim Laue
- to Georgetown Law School at night. just gotten out of the navy. I started in 1961 and I had I didn't know anybody in Washington. One night at the law school after about three weeks, a fellow who always sat behind me in the contracts class, who was all duded
- proceeded to do that. of the legislative history. One of my assignments was to read all The Tidelands Act had been subject of a filibuster-B: That's a lot of material. P: I read thousands of pages. By and large, the disposition of the mud lumps
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- and working relationship, and that although he was sort of on the periphery, Ted Kennedy did, too, but that something in the chemistry between Bobby and Lyndon was always abrasive . 0: I suppose from what you read now . I don't know if it was before . You
- -time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs
- page But and mine on the other, people that read the papers could see the difference of the positions. And then the Constitution changed its position, our morning newspaper, and began to advocate it. And then people began to say that, "Well, maybe
- in behalf of the visit, day and night, as I had for several weeks, I was beginning to experience a sense of well, "it's just terrific." Then all at once the motorcade came to a stop. say it sounded like maybe a car backfiring. At first I would have to I
- advertising agency around the clock for two straight nights and days and we completed the program. Meanwhile I was working with the advance men on this dinner. My first connection with the trip came when the President and the Vice President landed
- back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights
- a resolution was read one morning by the reading clerk who had this big old voice, you could hear him all over Austin almost, reading without the benefit of a public address system. And he said: r~e it resolved that tonight after the House adjourns
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Humphrey and Henry Reuss, as a corps of young people who would go overseas and do good things in developing countries. I stayed with the program and enrolled in Georgetown Law School at night rather than going on to the Universi:ty of Virginia Law School
- the steam right out of us. In that particular campaign, why, we worked all night long getting our committee plans ready. The next morning we'd read the Los Angeles paper, which was being put out with the aid of Mr. Kennedy out there, wherever he sat his
- started reading my columns and news stories in the paper in Oklahoma, which is his home state. We became friends and a dialogue developed. expressed an interest. I I told him that I wanted to work for the President if I could, do anything
- had almost an hour's conference with the President on the night of the twenty-third. M: The plane turned back, you were told what happened, and you returned to Washington then? H: Right. M: Johnson, meanwhile, with Mrs. Kennedy and the rest
- , Bill Manchester wrote in his book--he got carried away and wrote that it was a Bible that Kennedy often read at night while he was making trips. He would read this Bible at night before he would turn out his lights, Manchester said. I later tracked
- the job of waking up Ambassador Lodge at nine-thirty in the evening and telling him that. He was grumpy at first: "Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?" And I said, "Well, sir, it's a telegram from the President with instructions about
- on the second primary night as on the E: general election night. Yes, I think it did play quite a good deal. Then, of course, that's the election campaign that ended up with the disputed vote count and the ruckus at the certification meeting, and the court
- knowledge of him was almost like any, I suppose, average, intelligent man, reading the papers and being aware of him. I'd followed his career in Texas, but peculiarly enough until that afternoon, I really had never seen him in person and surely had never
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- that the French It simply means that the Viet Cong had enough of a fight with us and didn't want one with the French as well. out, we weren't stopped. As it turned I had worked all night and the night before, and going through the worst part of Zone 0
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- Presidential candidate with Mr. Stevenson to represent the South? J: Yes, I recall there was, but I was not a participant in any of the convention procedures at that time. Yes, I did hear and read that this might have been a feeling of those people
- : Johnson would ten pages, single- spaced, with paragraphs a half a page long, sentences that you had to read three times to figure out what they were saying. LBJ would look at it, obviously at night, read a coup.le of paragraphs, and throw it aside
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- worked all day in that capacity and the night before as well. P: Can you tell me a little about it? W: Well, it was just a matter of contacting individuals that I knew from those particular counties from Texas and trying to convince them
- Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 San Antonio at Alamo Heights Junior High School. During those four years, I was going to night law school in San Antonio at the old San
- about 8 o'clock at night. Met Mr. Califano and spent about an hour with him, and then for the first time discovered that I was being considered to be deputy mayor of the District of Columbia. When Mr. Califano was through with the interview, he made
- this hindsight that people try to put into history these days to prove that they were right. I was fascinated to read last night an article in Encounter magazine written by a man named Robert Elegant-G: He's a British journalist, I believe. H: --in which he
- , but I \\las in graduate school at the time, just at the time work. I think she was about completing her undergraduate I was a student assistant for journalism, teaching headline writing and copy reading while I took tv:o years to get my masters degree
- an Electra, a chartered Electra; you may recall those planes. They had kind of a circular lounge right in the rear, the tail. F: Right. W: And after everything was through for the night, he'd be flying off somewhere--maybe Garden City, Kansas--be flying
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- me ." He said that "They got 'em organized here ." I remember one time when I was sergeant-at-arms over there and we were going to have our meeting the same night that Joe Louis was going to fight . F: Oh, no . M: It was in the spring
- wanted to make you friendly as possible. Yes, you get an intimation of . . . . F: And did he read you? B: Well, I was impressed with him. F: No, I mean did he read your copy? Did you get an idea that when I didn't agree with him-- you wrote
- and wanted to see my father do well . likewise . His brothers and sisters were interested in him They were readers . I've heard him say when they lived in Georgia that they were poor people, but they took the Atlanta Constitution , and his mother read
- out your transfer. You go down and start shooting because we've got these big moon shots coming up," or sun shots or something. So this began a series of commuting between Canaveral for shoot; fly back to Washington that night with the raw film
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- they reacted very well. One of the cute stories about the White House years is that a senator attacked the President very strongly on the floor of the Senate the day of a state dinner, and that night he was on the guest list. Of course, COpy Lyndon B~ Jobnson
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 19, 1969 M: This is an interview with Dr. Joseph A. Pechman. Institution. He is at Brookings I am in the Reading Room of the Library at Brookings where the interview is taking place. The date is March 19, 1969
- of the things I found out when I got out there is that as usual, nobody had read any of the stuff that the Vietnamese were putting out themselves on what they wanted to achieve with the strategic hamlet program. Well, one of the things they had