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Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the Lone Star Steel Company at the time, but he had been well known to the President, had been involved in all of his campaigns. Indeed, I was far less intimate with President Johnson when I came to the White House than Marvin Watson. So Marvin did

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

senator had in fact. AG: What do you think about this? Well, there again that was someone that came in new and suddenly wanted to be a big star. I don't think you ever had that criticism before with the Dick Russells, the Bob Kerrs, the [Estes

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 2 (II), 3/31/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

west? R: It was on the only rOqd you can get--direct road--from Austin to Fredericksburg. It was, as today, through Johnson City. Mail came in from three places every day. At the post office in the morning we arranged the mail to go on a star

Oral history transcript, Emma Boehringer Tooley, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson had, or was this something--? T: No, we all loved the stars and the moon and all of the beautiful flowers. Our mother used to say, well, we never saw a flower but what we stopped and loved it and thanked the Lord for it. So we just loved all

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- III -- 24 Jack what's-his-name of the Washington Star and his wife Leona--Jack Horner. He wrote under the name

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and decided not to, instead of reading a morality lesson to them the way they were doing to us, telling us to get our house in order, he sent a telegram to General de Gaulle saying, "Glad you took your decision. We will support you." Anyhow, now this gets me

Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as much as he'd have liked for And he was asking me if I knew Jones, who was presi- dent of the NAACP. G: John J. H: John J. Jones of Texarkana was a distant cousin of mine. me his telegram. He showed John J. told him that he didn't support

Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

of them, their thoughtfulness in so many things, like Polk mentioned earlier, the fact that he sent flowers to him when he was in the hospital. he's a busy person. I know He also sent him a telegram and I talked to Lady Bird by telephone, and she wrote

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- XXVII -- 11 approve federal payments of those outrageous wages. And Johnson made a public announcement that the whole question had been turned over to me. Well, I immediately got flooded with telegrams, et cetera, from labor and from the [National

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the faculty signing our petitions and voting with us. We had faculty reaction and a retraction from the Board of Regents when they tried to summon me without my dean to sort of a star chamber proceeding in the Board of Regents room. We had all

Oral history transcript, Estelle Harbin, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

stars who had gotten married many years before. live. (Laughter) They had both been stars, and had gone to England to Well, he just had mutiny on his hands there in the office because he had not called us over to the Capitol to meet them. So about

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

star with a red background, blue center with gold stars in the center of it. There is also a smaller medal to go with this, which can be worn on a coat. There is an even smaller one to wear in a buttonhole and a bar with blue and white colors

Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

said, "No ." I said, "What the He said, "Did you see the Star [He said], "There's a double heading with a column about that wide that says, 'First of the Establishment Leaves Johnson . Protege of Congressman McCormack and close personal friend

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

tell you how the Univer- sity of Texas Nill integrate A&M. We may get a few Negro football stars and beat you very badly and to retaliate you may start admitting Negro athletes." Negro stars. M: I don't even know if either team as yet has any

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[to El Torrejon]. He was still a colonel. He never got a star as far as I know. Now why LBJ did this to him instead of handing him a star [I don't know]. I'm sure it would have been just as easy. Look what he did for Jim Cross later. This guy had been

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was. The Republicans had taken a tremendous battering in the 1958 election and then they'd lost seats in the House and Senate. Nixon had been the only one out campaigning, and we took this battering, and the only bright star that presumably came out

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

majority whip, 1955-62; House majority leader, 1962-71; Speaker of the House, 1971-77. Served in U.S. Army, 1941-46, PTO. Decorated Bronze Star, Democrat. 14

Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Well, I don't know, but you know Mr. Johnson became very powerful, I would say, as a leader, and it's my belief that he was looking at stars far away; that is, he was probably thinking of getting

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-- I -- 5 LG: That's tough. Paul Gorman. One was then Colonel Paul Gorman, now four-star General He was my deputy. Bill Kaufmann, professor at MIT. Then Colonel, now General Bob Schweitzer [?J. A few people from Systems Analysis who were each

Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

) He wanted five Lone Star beers, and the girl couldn't under- 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, John W. Macy, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

office in the headquarters of the Sixth Corps area of the Army in Chicago. personnel out there. They had never heard of civilian I went in and introduced myself to the commanding general who was there with two stars on his shoulder

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Now this was not quite the same as the situation with respect to President Truman~ because President Eisenhower, being also a five-star general, had a number of things of this kind available to him in that capacity as well 8: 0 To move into other

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

because it's headed by a five-star general of being very alert to national security needs, really isn't. It's not taking care of us as it should. Remember that in 1953 Charles Wilson of General Motors had come in as secretary of defense, and he said his

Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and he succeeded in developing ideas that were useful to us. And we had a good minority section from the Republicans, had an all-star cast from the Senate. We did succeed in getting some real work done. B: When did you first begin to think of Mr

Oral history transcript, Anita P. Winters, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. (Laughter) Well, there wasn't anything really we could do, but we wanted to do something, but we were just to where we couldn't do anything. G: What are your recollections of the funeral? W: Well, it was a very nice funeral. There was--what movie star

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, I remember the words to a great many things, like "America the Beautiful" and "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" and even "The Star-Spangled Banner,"' which was always hard, from having sung them at those Friday afternoon exercises. Then somebody would

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mishap. That was in late 1966. I had arranged a President's Club fund raiser in St. Louis, which was on the day of the all-star baseball game. The principal speaker was going to be Hubert Humphrey. August Busch, who owned the St. Louis team

Oral history transcript, Tom C. Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

campaign. F: In both of them? Both the ‘41 and '48? C: I think that the President would say that too. No, not in the '41 one. I think that was Pappy O'Daniel. No, I have the distinction of having sent Mr. Johnson a telegram of congratulations from

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, or a meeting in the White House? R: I believe, if I'm not mistaken, Cliff Alexander called about to people. B: It could have been a telegram, but I doubt it. Did the President call on you for more direct help in getting what was now to be the Civil Rights

Oral history transcript, L. Wade Lathram, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

as acting AID director for the last three months. I think you do; I've already sent off the telegram, and I hope you have a good trip. My recommendation is you be political-economic advisor for the Middle East." Ooh! Very shortly after that he came back

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to have the Maritime Administration included within the Department of Transportation. [They] had sent telegrams to every congressman signed by George Meany saying that the inclusion of the Maritime Administration in the 2 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

members of Congress, and you suddenly had the feeling "Here's old Lyndon."And you should have seen the telegrams that were on his desk by seven o'clock that 20 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Sam Fore, Oliver Bruck, Dan Quill, & William S. White, group interview 2 (II), 1/20/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)

said to Sam when we left, “This train is going to get to Muskogee, Oklahoma about 10:00 o'clock, and I want a telegram there. How are we going to do it?” Well, when we got to Muskogee, there was my telegram and my man had won. C: I believe you had

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in Temple, thirty miles to the south. It was unused and nobody had applied for it, and he helped get Channel 6 moved from--I believe it was Odessa, I'm not sure--to Temple. Frank Mayborn, who owned the Temple Daily Telegram applied for it and got

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

got a lot of hate mail at that point. S: In one day six 0; seven hundred telegrams, plus baskets of mail, big baskets. army. There was a woman named Annie Lee t10ss, who worked for the At r'kCarthy's insistence they withdrew her clearance. her

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tocker -- II -- 21 G: Before we quit, I just want to note that you have here on the table the original copy of the telegram from Larry O'Brien inviting you to attend the signing

Oral history transcript, Kenneth Torp, interview 1 (I), 6/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, there's an escalation that goes on. And I was standing duty watches and watching for important telegrams; and at some times simply being a messenger boy running up to the palace with cables. F: Everybody was now on twenty-four hour call. T: Oh, yes

Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. He did that for a number of years. I don't suppose he continued that when he was senator, but while he was representative (he did). Also, if anybody had a big wedding anniversary or somebody died, he'd write. telegram from him. Why, when Mr. Webb