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Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

went a little later. Anyway, he pulled out of law school. I think he pulled out to get married; I believe that's the secret. Anyway, I went to night law school and finished one year at Georgetown. Then the following summer--Mr. Johnson in the meantime

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Three H.G. Dulaney, John Holton, and myself, took turns about staying up all night at the hospital. One of us was there every night. This particular night I was on, and he usually would wake very early in the morning. So we were there. He said

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

letters that I ever read in my life. I don't know whether I had it in that batch of things I turned over to the Library or not. I doubt it. I moved around a good deal in those days and didn't keep up with my files very well. the answer to your

Oral history transcript, Marie Lindau Olson, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

just popped out of the wall and then the hordes of friends and people that were reading in the newspaper, they made a--they had a news release and announced this program. Then everybody just came in. But this organized man would have the mail on his

Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

competitive type Of course, all of them being associated with politicians, the leaders of the Little Congress were, you know, 'gung ho' too. I remember the night that Lyndon was elected speaker of the Little Congress. quite an occasion. It was held

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

together. boy~ a friend of mine. A young Jewish and a few others, got about eight or ten yards of black crepe and we climbed up on the roof of an adjacent building and draped this fiery cross in black crepe the night after they had tarred and feathered

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Lufkin that were on the football team: and Elvin Read. Ardis Hopper, Clark Gordon The first week of training I was there in order to get acquainted with the coaches, and at a Mrs. Gates' house, where the training table was being maintained, I met

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

Lady Bird. Lyndon called me one day and said he wanted to introduce me to his girl and suggested that we have dinner. Of course, he didn’t have any money and I didn’t either. So, I said, “You know I went to a place last night that sure had a wonderful

Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

traveled I received a call from a man by the name of Lyndon B. Johnson, to my surprise, about four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. duced himself. I went to the telephone. He intro- I told him yes, I had read of him in the papers, of his having come

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the troubles than the good, because he'd read the good in the paper . And he wanted to know about the bad before he read it in the paper . And this involved the whole department . other words, [for example], oil policy : if there were any leaks from

Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and Hays Counties, and he did a magnificient job for me. but very active working group. He set up an informal I remember Wilton Wood and Bill Deason who, I think now, is on the Interstate Commerce Commission-F: I saw him election night. H: Well, I

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 3 (III), 2/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Birdwell -- III -- 8 over there, and by that time we had had time to read and study some

Oral history transcript, Ray E. Lee, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

. The speech had been written and he asked Claude Wild to go down there and read it. And Claude did. There was also a radio broadcast from Luling on that particular Friday night. B: That was over WOAI? L: Over KNOW, I guess. B: Local station. L

Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the train in Fort Worth, and I caught the railroad train and rode all Austin about five-thirty in the morning. it. I believe it was a Katy. ~ight and got into The Night Owl they called And I took a taxi, which cost fifteen cents, to take me from

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 3 (III), 4/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. Skiles, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of him was] reading in the Dallas [Morning] News that he had been appointed NYA director for Texas. It surprised me a bit because a few weeks or a few days before I had read that a fellow from Port Arthur or Corpus [Christi] somewhere down there, had

Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been appointed Ambassador to Chile, and I wanted to go back to Chile . I liked it . I spoke the language fluently, I could read and write it as well as I could English ; I kept books in it for two years . F: You had been with a mining company

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of southerners that wrote the report on economic conditions in the South which I recolmlend all historians, particularly from Arkansas, read. It's a document that was produced to try to bring the South into the rest of the economy of the country_

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

think I'll ever be caught playing against the President, because he can read those LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] things bac~~ards--those so much

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

continued our mvn private discussion of that conference far into the night. than I had ever known her to be -- during all our year's together. We had, for a long time, been ~ccustomed sessions ,,,ith small groups of my dents. She was more serious

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

there that helped raise her. We stayed there that night, and I asked them where they got the name of Bird--how she happened to get the name of Bird, and I was told that this old Negro that had to take and raise her said that when she was born, she said that she

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and three nights here trying to figure out [what to do] . All the discussions have resulted in telling us what we couldn't do . Could we have a half hour before we go home in which you tell us what we can do?" faced . Well, he laughed and got a little

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you know anything about the story that we've heard, how LBJ went out and helped get enough votes to put the White Stars :andidate over? r~: I've heard the story, but I probably don't -know any more about it than you or anybody else who read

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] a lot of purple rhetoric by present standards, and Mr. Johnson just loved these speeches. There were speeches on motherhood and a whole bunch of stuff--very beautifully said, but very purple, the rhetoric. He would read these speeches to us

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, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, but educational in the sense of learning how to care for themselves and how to work and how to make a living and how to earn money, and I think it was highly worthwhile. I'll have to say for Lyndon Johnson, he worked night and day. There weren't LBJ

Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had to spend there waiting for the night train here, I walked over to the river and down to the river banks because the famous NC-4, one of the seaplanes that had gone around the world, was sitting at anchor dovm there while the officers and the men

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall or may have read, was Mrs. Sarah Hughes. From what I have [learnedJ in my investigations since that time, as near as I can tell, Mrs. Hughes was concerned on a moral issue rather than on a economic or political issue, particularly with regard

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

work projects for the college, but also were getting an opportunity to learn to read and write and some of the other things that are such an important part of developing any working skills, which was what we were trying to [accomplish] . G: What sort

Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Haley is still at it, a critical newspaper _~rticle. I just saw one the other day. G: Did you get to know Mrs. Johnson during this period? K: No, only at dinner that one night. was one of my assistants. Lyndon invited Francoise Black, who I

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

campaign going and the night before election we caucused and decided we were behind twenty votes and decided to throw in the sponge--all but Lyndon. He said, "0h, no, if twenty votes is all we need, we've got from now until eight o'clock in the morni ng

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

thought I was running a very good race until we had a dinner party on election night to celebrate the election which we knew would be successful, and many of our close friends came. Along about 7:30, when the returns started coming in, I was out

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, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was for the NYA, because he had been closer to it. r noticed, incidentally, in reading today's paper that Carey, our new governor, was an NYA boy, got through college on the NYA. After a certain amount of time, we had a great many members of Congress who had

Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Washington in the papers, we'll say-- because I consider the Washington Post an excellent paper, the New York Times and the Pittsburgh Gazette--Post Gazette is a very good paper too. However, if you read a Washington paper, you'll find out a good deal

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

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the University of Pittsburgh and later at Harvard, got this notion called the tipping theory, and it read very, very, very impressive. The only trouble with it is, it's like the theory that there is a time when if your temperature gets to be a certain amount