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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to remember the names of the very few whom we did know in Austin. I think one had a Johnson City background, a furniture man named Brown, and a hardware man named Davis. Oh, gee. G: Here's a list of contributors, if you can read that messy handwriting. J

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the city of Chicago November 5, 1896; on the near west side, a short distance from the Loop. My education was just a grammar school education and some courses at night school at Lewis Institute. M: You went to work at an early age? K: I went to work

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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, Wilton Woods, interview 2 (II), 4/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Woods -- II -- 4 to--it would be a speaking at night when the Fergusons were running for governor~ that kind of thing. You might have heard along on a trip and went to San Antonio to hear Jim think~ speak for Ma, or vice versa. rally. Anyway~ I

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

care of his business, and accepted the fact he has had a heart attack. He has the problems of convalescence to worry him and so forth. But still that same night, in the process of getting his thoughts in order, he talked with Lady Bird. Mrs. Johnson, I

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the telephone. But it was an interesting story to me, because it was part of the President's boyhood that I don't happen to have read about~ also because it showed the kind of a background he"grew up in. and He was exposed to what we know as "making your

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 4 (IV), 8/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

home. You couldn't possibly get them all registered. In Washington, D.C., the registration law they've put in locally here--I read somewhere that less than twenty percent of the estimated guns in the District of Columbia are registered, and of that less

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

today, Lyndon Johnson felt he was the president, and they all worked for him. Some of the things I've seen recently in the press about his Secret ServiceCone thing in particular: I read an article about bathroom habits and the Secret Service. I can't

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

I called up--this was about 11:30-12:00 o'clock at night, not 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, Wilton Woods, interview 1 (I), 12/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

all night with him and the next night he would stay all night at our house. Kids like, we slept together, it was nothing unusual in those days. In fact, it was compelling because houses were small. (Interruption) In looking back, at the time maybe

Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

went out there . before . I got there in the morning or the night Anyhow, I talked with Max and then I met Heath, who's a lawyer, you know . Do you know who he is? M: I know who he is . I never met him . B: He's a lawyer and a real Texas old

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was how he could somehow get on top of a script very quickly without having to refer to it. He characterized Senator Kennedy as being able to read a memorandum and somehow get on top of it very quickly and go out and talk about it. And yet I'm confusing

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Washington when Johnson was vice president I went to a party one evening out at Liz Carpenter's house. I had not long before read Ted White's book, The Making of a President, 1960, and he has in there a version of how the Johnson selection as vice president

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: 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, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

very well at Amherst: Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, and all that business. I went to law school, never read a book, never went to class. I really didn't like it; I never wanted to practice law. I read novels; I became an expert on many of our great

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. very favorably. I mean, comparisons are obnoxious. I think generally Mrs. Johnson came out She did things. F: Particularly as time went by. C: Yes. F: I read some of the comments on her in 1 64 as against 1 67 and '68, and you could see

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

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 history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

night about a story they ran and just chewed out some poor night copy editor? I'm sure LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] every night . it quiet . More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh We had had reporters trying to listen in . We tried to hold the line

Oral history transcript, Dorothy Territo, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1983, by Claudia Anderson (Item)

to Bruce Thomas, who had maybe one assistant and then part-time helpers. They were the ones that would be folding the mail and mailing it at night. But Bruce--that's Bruce Thomas--with his helper, they would open the mail and if it was case mail, meaning

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

' rights basis, I suppose you'd term it. When I got here and this bill came up, I read the bill at night. Mrs. Pickle was in Austin. I'd take it home in the evening and read it and I'd debate it with myself. I was coming around to the conclusion

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, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

There's nothing as confusing as to try to unravel a descrip- tion of a night action at sea. There you can see things in-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and many senior members. My recollections about Mr. Johnson in particular are rather hazy at this time. I do recall that he was a rather prominent member of the delegation and I, therefore, was somewhat attracted to him out of curiosity, having read a lot

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 2 (II), 2/8/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was scheduled to make a speech in one of the town parks right across from the hotel where he was staying. to scout the opposition. So I went over there that night just You know, we didn't end up at the same place at the same time too many times

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: Yes. I can tell you ab~ut a night I had dinner with Mike Feldman, in February of 1960, when Mike and I put the ticket together and only he was right. . B: S: Mr. Feldman was working then for ... . Senator Kennedy. And he was, of course

Oral history transcript, Vernon R. Alden, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

five in the morning, fly to Washington, work all day long, talk with Shriver until well in the evening, and then work all the next day before flying back to Ohio late at night. I would guess that the reason Sargent Shriver asked me to become involved

Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

way . He was He sat back and listened to the professor, and so on . One night he said to me in class, "How is it you always know the answer to these questions?" You know, when the professor would ask questions I'd put up my hand and discuss

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 15 (XV), 1/4/1980-1/5/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as could be, just jumping at the news of the day. In fact, we had had long discussions about all of the situation with Japan the night before and that morning at breakfast before I drove to Billingsley. I remember, with appropriate dismay, how I had said

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for devising this grand strategy which Wayne Morse had really devised. But he lays out what a hero I am in this meeting in the Cabinet Room or something. And that night he called me. I didn't call him. That night he called me, he said, "Did you read my column

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and Marianne Means were both reporters and I read them religiously, and neither one of them never during the entire war or even after that betrayed his confidence on any of the discussions that took place there. They had inside information that no other writers

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

which was a record vote for any candidate for Governor on either ticket. So after he was elected, reelected Governor, the night after the election, the day after the election, I made the prediction that, in my judgment, he would be the nominee

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

really to make a contribution. I knew that and far more significantly, he knew that. Hhen Prime :Hinister Holt died, my recollection is that that was learned early on a Monday morning [or) late on a Sunday night. The Presi- dent i==ediately
leading up to Nixon’s inauguration; cocktail party in the Mansion on the last night of Johnson’s presidency; Temple’s activities the day of Nixon’s inauguration; leaving Andrews Air Force Base with LBJ and talking to George Bush; LBJ’s reception

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and teaching him to read and being with him. I think he very much missed--it made him realize that he'd missed other opportunities to be with her during times in Washington, maybe sometimes he wouldn't go by to see her every time he went to the Ranch

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and then we went up to the LCRA guest house to spend the night. We were all throwing a football around Sunday morning when Nellie and the other women came running out saying that the Japs had bombed Pearl Harbor. We all went into the guest house to listen

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 7 on April 20, 1968, to Califano in which I said, "I have read the draft of the Kappel Commission report and I would strongly recommend against public release or presidential endorsement of the report in the form that it was sent." Joe Califano had
Hampshire primary; the timing of RFK's announcement; Eugene McCarthy as a presidential candidate in 1968; O'Brien's trip to Wisconsin; a run-in with Jesse Unruh the night before O'Brien's son left for Vietnam; LBJ's March 31, 1968, announcement that he would

Oral history transcript, Otto Lindig, interview 1 (I), 3/1965, by Jessie Hunter (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -4Hall that night. Lyndon took first. The title of that speech was, "Texas Undivided and Indivisible," which was a very popular speech in those:days. The next year he went

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about Maury Maverick that we've read and we know the author. G: Dick Henderson. W: Yes. G: Just a lucky guess. How'd you know that? (Laughter) W: But when we were living in San Antonio, I was working for the oil and gas division of the Railroad

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