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- /show/loh/oh 17 B: Well, I was wondering if you had any specific instances of what you call the stubbornness that has sometimes hurt his activities? C: I think you'd just have to read his record. It's written down for you to see. B: Do you think
- independence; wife's opinion of Lady Bird; strong Kennedy supporter; supper with RFK the night before his assassination; incident on plane after RFK's death; relationship between RFK and LBJ
- , I think, when we talked Friday night, that he was a person that if I were you I would interview. He is getting up in years. This we'll take out of the transcript, but, off the record, but for your information he is up in years. F: He is still
- that in and out a" it. By lying to the bedroom every morning as I did, I came in contact ~1 with the speech because by-and-large the various drafts were went to the President as his night reading. When I would arrive there in the morning the speech would
- objects would be hauled through the streets at nights, and things of this kind. F: It was difficult to gauge-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
- -- II -- 5 call second level or third level decisions, not of the highest importance or urgency, which are nevertheless significant enough to come to the Budget Director. Here the responsibility of the Budget Director to try to read the President's
- the speech to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Annual Dinner and he and Mrs. Johnson spent the night with Mrs. Hodges and me at the mansion. We had a chance to know them pretty intimately, and he made a good impression at the Jackson Day Dinner because he
- on the train. And of course some of them got on late at night, some of them came in the back door. Some of them, a few of them, fortunately stood up and didn't make any bones about it, like I was doing, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
- o'clock in the afternoon. body back here that night. As you know, they brought his President Johnson--of course he immediately became President--called me quite early, somewhere between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, the very next morning
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- came in, he was an old :ial of the Speaker' s , and the Speaker said, "This is one I want . " I had his Ci vil Service report because he'd been in and it was rather voluminous and I'd read a ll through it. We always c l eared them with the Bureau
- me disheartened cablegrams that night and we were deeply distressed . Then on Monday came a cablegram from the President saying, "Here's your wheat .' I don't know . Now, why, Was LBJ playing games with these people? I don't suppose he changes
- been the White Horse Division, but it doesn't make any difference, it was the division under the 9th Corps. He said, "They gave way during the night and there's no ROK division there now. in your artillery. The Chinese are now marching in strength
- he was at least tacitly giving his approval to these election plans . Bi : Well, according to the stories you read, he obviously was . hear it mentioned from time to time--mentioned with me . We used to Sometimes people I was calling
- office and they notify their headquarters who notifies us here and so it is a double check. And we dispatch an agent to check- it out. M: The instance that came to my mind, I recall reading in Time one which, I believe it was the FBI declined
- . Well, this intrigued some of us and we got to work on it. some meetings over in State in the middle of the night. meeting lasted until 1:00 a.m. discussing this. We had I remember one We had some experts in land reform I personally thought it might
- with Bob Kennedy alone in his room at the Biltmore Hotel the night before that happened, and I had no inkling. I was totally surprised. I was totally outside that, couldn't contribute anything to it here. S: There's been a good deal of speculation
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- had sensed, and ',.,hat the sentiment was, as I could read it. 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
- of the people he checked it out with didn't know any more about it than he did, and they all read it, and they all arrived at the same conclusion. ''Well, it's okay." F: I know that the State Department and the White House go to great lengths to see
- district with any sort of problems they had. He had a very broad scope. F: Did you work out of Hempstead or out of Austin? H: Both, but primarily out of Austin. F: Where were you the night of the election? H: As I recall it, I was in Austin
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- at. F: On.something like the New York Times in which you are not confronted--that is, the great general public can't read a by-line and tell whether it's white, black, or plaid, how does such a generally liberal organ have such a poor record
- do then? T: Flew back to Washington. F: How soon did you see the Senator? T: I think the day I got back to Washington, that night or the next morning I went to the hospital and Dr. [James] Cain took me in just for a He was still under the oxygen
- also set great store--he thought I had influence over the arms of the government in my articles in the paper. Johnson as he did. He was anxious for me to know and appreciate So he invited me out to dinner one night for the purpose of meeting Johnson
- , and McGeorge Bundy, and there was Ross Gilpatric, and McNamara, and several others on the staff of the White House in the Office of Science and Technology and the Defense Department. We had been to the White House on Wednesday night to a reception and had
- . In fact, the very day I was appointed there was a big reception at the White House planned for that night for the new appointees over the past year, and we were immediately brought into that. Then I would say there have been two or three lunches a year
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- be. This This is what Why can't you give us , " or whatever it might I think that in that sense he saw those reports, and he used them in a constructive way. But I think, if he read them--as I am sure he did; I saw him read them--carefully, he also saw emerging
- : Was this at night or in the afternoon? 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 6 S
- back the very next morning through his night reading. He seemed to me prodigious in his handling of any communi- cations I had with him. My command of the job that I was given was such that whoever the people were who were occasionally called upon
- for Johnson's TV station, he and I were out at the airport catching a plane when we heard it on the radio. F: What did you do then? K: Nothing. Boatner, he was covering it, and he was still there, so he covered it. No, Mr. Rayburn had indicated the night
- at all. He used to take a stack of material down on the beach and sit there with one yeoman and read what had to be acted upon and dictate the answer right now, and out it went. He didn't even proofread it. He just dictated the answer
- /exhibits/show/loh/oh -18- At the rally he had that night in Boston, there was a big overflow rally with thousands outside unable to get in. And he had evidenced by his leadership in the Senate a refreshing and courageous, progressive leadership
- that for granted. F: And you worked. S: Yes, sir. F: Did you go home that night? S: As I recall, I think I did go home about three or four o'clock. I came back very early the next morning. F: Did you get involved at all in the funeral? S: No, sir. F
- it actually than pretty much what I had read in the newspapers and the kind of gossip you picked up around the Democratic National Committee and the White House. I had no personal knowledge of it. Ba: Do you know if Mr. Truman interested himself
- to keep him from taking the U.S. Senate seat here in Washington. We had some very exciting moments on election day, election night particularly, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- of that, and he said--actually he wasn't there but he had one of his assistants read his speech for hinr-"I am now in a position from certain statements I have made on national TV and to the press of looking as if I may lead the state into a secession again. All
- the Warren Commission. M: Is that testimony, to your knowledge, complete as you would wish it to be? C: So far as I know it is. M: Do you have anything you want to add to it? C: No, not tha t I know of. M: Well, I want to read this into the tape so
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- think of and read and talk to and interpret some of what black thought is, but it's a disservice to your principal if he's president of the United States. not to let him get firsthand [opinions]. F: But it still filters through you? A: Exactly
- to President Kennedy's call, and I spent a good many evenings reading and grading those papers after I entered office. My call from President Kennedy came after an interesting series of circum- stances. The first entre: to the Kennedy Admi~ration came
- have an opportunity to sit down with you and understand why you felt the way you do about certain things, well, I might get a completely different idea than I would from reading something in the newspapers about what you'd done or what you thought, you
- days. So they put Hess in the front row there, with the doctors observing film. He would sit up there and pretend to be reading a book and wouldn't talk to Ribbentrop or Göring or anybody. All the other defendants would talk with one another during
- thing about the politics of Texas, except that it's awfully confusing . And I never had any difficulty, because of their record, in believing that both Mr . Johnson and Mr . Yarborough were fine, outstanding, public servants . Yet just reading