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Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . reading. He ended up at nights, you've heard about all the night My impression was that, for instance, there was some friction between Califano and some of the cabinet people because they sort of looked at Joe as maybe getting between them
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • R: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Yes, I read this last night. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I didn't even remember it until I read it. G
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • before you came in and I thought you should know about this." He said, "Oh," he read it, and he said, "Thank you very much," and put it in his pocket and he went on about his business. Well, I found out a 1itt le later in the day that she worked
Oral history transcript, Allen E. Barrow, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the pleasure of being associated with, and I was quite close to Senator Kerr . Mrs . Kerr said, in my presence one night when I took them to the hotel after we'd been on a speaking thing, that I was closer to him than his own sons were . stop right there . F
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as a legislative leader. I remember LBJ very vividly that night.. me, of course. He paid no attention to He was polite; he was tall, I remarked about his tallness; he was well turned out, well-dressed. He looked tired and busy, as though he had had a good
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Bundy, Walter Jenkins were with him. F: You had a regular White House pass or EOB pass or something like that? R: You had no difficulty in getting in? In those days, that's right. up that night. And we met in the EOB elevator going LBJ
  • LBJ and RFK; LBJ’s activities the night of November 22, 1963; LBJ’s first days as President; JFK’s staff; the transition; Jacqueline Kennedy; LBJ in retirement
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • state for all intents and purposes. I had read about Mr. Johnson and first met him in 1948 in his campaign for the Senate. I was very much interested in that ca'mpaign, very strong for Mr. Johnson. We moved to Longview. Through Baile y Sheppard, who
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • professional fashion. Whereas we were just sort of the good guys of America. had, I think, one delegation the night before the roll call. the devil was it? Kansas, I think. We What We had it by one vote, and went to bed on it, and woke up and one vote had
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • talk for a second about your view of the nature of the war? From reading some of the communications that you made to the White House and some of the statements that you made for newspapers and at the trial, your view of what the war was about inside
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /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
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -seven and one-half per cent oil depletion allowance than any two men in the entire government. And the oilmen should have gotten down on their knees every night and given thanks for Johnson and Rayburn. ~1: And then they left him, though, in '60. K
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Was this for action in the Pacific? P: For action in the Pacific, right, around Kelpart Island, which is just south of Korea, where we went into a harbor one night and sank a munitions ship that was at anchor. M: Did you have to go through nets and mine fields
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of calling Lyndon because he hasn't read the cables. When you get into one of these things you want to talk to the people who are most i n v o l v e d , and your mind does not turn to Lyndon because he isn't following the flow of cables." That was the only
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • is you can never say "no" to a He didn't even ask me. He just assumed that if he said "yes," I would. I remember when I came home that night. The meeting had been scheduled for about 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon, and he got to me about 7:00 instead
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , after having attended night school at the University of Connecticut, you received your law degree and were admitted to the Connecticut Bar. And until 1951 you served as an instructor in the English departments at Harvard and the University
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 1 (I), 7/13/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • sufficient to put it across. That plus Shriver's energy and tre- mendous effectiveness on the Hill. I've written about this as-- I take it you've had a chance to read in this literature. I've done some writing on it. M: Was there somebody
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . 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, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this is what they thought. B: When was this? D: It was the morning following the nomination. ~f:er Was this that night after--? Then, later, right this 22e=i2g broke up, came Southern leaders like Terry Sanford, Luther Beuford ~ociges, Ellin~tQ
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 and did a radio broadcast once a week on Sunday night. pieces and lectures and one thing and another. I also did magazine I now look back in awe and unbelief on the amount
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Dick Gregory was out there; in fact, I think I helped get him out of jail not too long ago. He'll never know that, but-- These poor Indians had a treaty that, as far as I am concerned, on any fair reading was designed to give them rights to fish
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • way they liked. point system. There was a They had to go to school and learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. They learned from machines, so it didn't take teachers' time. They could take a teacher-given test anytime they wanted
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • read other people's speeches." it was then absolutely true. I said, "Well, This was pre-United Nations, but So I saw a young Jim Reston and Doug Cater LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Presidential candidate, but I really never expected it, read Lyndon Johnson, I thought that he'd want someone that was really very close to him . As I I thought he'd want another Senator because Lyndon Johnson is essentially a legislator, and I felt that he
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Jack Valenti did one of the most courageous things I ever saw but the President, not being literary, he never got it. Jack was reading Macaulay at the Ranch one weekend, and he read to the President a passage on the courtiers around Charles I and how
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • grievances and so forth. But I don't remember minimum wage. And you say, [reading from outline] "Has there an urban orientation? primarily on urban instead of rural poverty?" G: Last time, right. Y: Yes. "How did the task force function? We talked