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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, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of Germany. I was invited to attend and to spend the night as a guest in the White House. During the social hour before the dinner, many distinguished guests were present and I saw Justice Black of the Supreme Court. I remember a decision which he wrote

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and the questions of conflict of interest. We already read in the paper yesterday that President Nixon, in the midst of a major antitrust case, picked up the telephone and called the Deputy Attorney General and told him not to file an appeal. Later that order

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 7 (VII), 5/9/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it, but it works, too, you know. G: I heard you playing it the other night. P: Oh yes. You can play "When the Roll is Called Up Yonder," belt it out. Now, how you can use it in the Library's hold, I don't know. I think Harry [Middleton] has in mind maybe putting

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 2 (II), 2/14/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the White House I had become, personally, rather concerned about a lot of the things that were going on, things that seemed to me politically--well, inept is the kindest word I can use. And I ran into Dick Russell at a party one night. Now the relationship

Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of him. F: Incidentally, Senator Knowland told me--I saw him some time in the past year out in Oakland at the Tribune office--that President Johnson still sent him an occasionally note or something on a birthday or some other occasion when he read

Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

audience and feels his audience; he was good at it. He read the mood of his audience. He was quite good at it. M: Did he ad-lib a great deal? W: Yes. Oh, he could make a much better speech speaking from that which he knew and in which he conveyed

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

got up here our mail was heavy on that subject for a long time. This was in--I believe it was in 1955 that the Southern Manifesto--you remember reading about that--or do you remember that? Walter George of Georgia, the great orator, is the one who

Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

around the fact that there was misreporting by CIA or the armed services, intelligence services, whichever was doing it. Now, in your position, which I think is a rather unique position, reading the enemy documents and so forth, did you ever have any

Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, but in the end he wanted to go off with elaborate papers and sit with his yellow pad and do his toting up. Kennedy I suppose read everything in sight, not in the systematic way that Nixon did with pros and cons papers, but just read every analytical piece that he

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to read out loud a rather lengthy statement that John Kennedy had delivered as a Senator to the Massachusetts Farm Bureau state convention. It was a speech in which as a young senato~ Kennedy came out in effect against the agricultural price support

Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

in your whole life span. I noticed that you don't project those out as the first of this, and someone else picks that up. I think, based upon my reading, a lot of this came from your grandfather [John Ed Patten]. J: Yes, that is correct. H: Would you

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 7 (VII), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

they simply wouldn't thrive in Washington. So we thought that we'd have to do something other than that. At dinner that night at the Ranch, Liz Carpenter came up with the idea of going to the quarry at Marble Falls and looking for a stone there. Mrs. Johnson

Oral history transcript, William C. Westmoreland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

And I recall after the dinner party at the Wheelers, which did not break up until after eleven o'clock, I went up to read over my manuscript for the last time and found it unsatisfactory. , So I worked until about two o'clock in the morning in making

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was down there and he had control over his time and what he could do, he was relaxed most of the time and would work in the morning or late at night. M: You haven't described any of the very widely, supposed at least, abuse that his staff received. Did

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

aircraft. McNamara blew him out of the water by saying, one, we've got plenty of KC-135s and, two, the A-6 was not yet tested. Greene wanted to replace the C-119s which he said did not provide an all-weather capability or a night-time capability. McNamara

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

takes place in Faulkner's Sanctuary.] I don't know if you ever read it, where Popeye's walking down the street with this guy and they're looking at all these black whores and white whores, all kinds, in the windows above. And this guy said, Let's go up

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

for regulation in some areas . came up in odd circumstances. In the early days these things I remember, for instance, one night about 2 o'clock in the morning I was reading some applications for state technical assistance grants and I ran across the name

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it in to me." Well, I did know, and some of what I knew about Stu shouldn't have been written. I knew lots. So I sat down and I patted my typewriter, and I said, "Write, honey." home at night. I sat down and wrote that at And I wrote it and I wrote

Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was deeply interested in it and included it in his night reading on at least two occasions, and sent for it on several occasions. After the President left office, I got a request from the White House for the report. I sent it to President Nixon. I

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sauvageot -- I -- 5 indicate the tones and how to put these together. That gave me the building blocks to purchase Vietnamese newspapers and develop vocabulary, both by reading

Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

transpired. But he did regard this man--now I'm aware that they had some words about the Vietnam War and some differences. I Johnson did not go to his funeral, I'm aware of that. did not know that incidentally until I read Cliff and Virginia Durr's

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

asked Willie laBay, a Scripps-Howard writer and a very dear friend of mine, a lady in her fifties, I would say, if she wouldn't come and spend the night with us at the Brinkerhoff Lodge. Willie very graciously and understandably agreed to do

Oral history transcript, R.J. (Bob) Long, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: We had to go to San Antonio to see it. F: That was an all day and night affair, wasn't it? L: Yes, and I don't know, I guess sometime later the next spring--! don't know when it was--she met Lyndon. And boy,_Lyndon, like· everything else, he

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

law at night, and second, that after he got his law degree I either heard from him or from somewhere that he had opened a law office. the extent of his activities. I didn't realize I do remember one Saturday afternoon when we were working

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

of your interests and specialties? J: Never, never, alas. I had the idea that anybody that could read could cook. And I did indeed cook everything for the first two years that we were married, and then, somewhere along the line, we acquired a cook. Help

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of photographs of mine. They seem to be now. At least, I think they will be. I was working one night, and unannounced and not even on the President's schedule that day, the Russian ambassador, [Anatoly] Dobrynin, came over. I don't remember the exact date

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

out your transfer. You go down and start shooting because we've got these big moon shots coming up," or sun shots or something. So this began a series of commuting between Canaveral for shoot; fly back to Washington that night with the raw film

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the first time on television, which came into everybody's room every night, and as television is interested in the sensational, dramatic, this was the aspect of war they saw, saw things that happen in every war but had never been seen before. [That] turned

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not going to be darkness. In many ways this is why, when I go to bed at night, I sleep better, because Lyndon Johnson is in the White House." I must say, in my naïveté, I thought that was a nice flourish. I really thought that was a pretty good way to end

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: In 1964 when I was on the PAC desk of NMCC, I was very much involved in Southeast Asia. That was the focus of it. G: What was the nature of your duties there? S: I was the PACOM desk officer in the National Military Command Center. I read all

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Haar, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the Bureau of the Budget, and sort of commiserating and claiming that, you know, it was a very short time and enormous amounts of material. absorbed. I found myself I was reading more and more of these reports about the rivers and mountains, national parks

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McGovern -- I -- 5 counterpart--not the counterpart; he was my partner on the Senate side. And he was in my office one day, Hubert was, and he read

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a good reporter does first and foremost is, he's able to read motivation. I think any reporter who's any good can read motivation as to why somebody is bitching. Is he bitching because he's a professional bitcher? bitching because he's always unhappy

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

one time at the time of the CypriotGreek argument. I got in there about seven o'clock at night, and he was just absolutely exhausted. All I should have said was, "Well, listen, I'm going home," or "You should go home and get a drink," or something

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

vote, finally. Did Johnson ever show his hand on that particularly? G: No, but I'll tell you something I don't think I've ever told publicly. Price Daniel came to me one night in the middle of the debate over whether to censure Joe or not, and he said

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Congressman Kleberg. Now those were the days--we were contempo- raries of a sort--where the young New Dealers around Washington congregated at all hours of the day and night, particularly at night. I came to Washington in 1933. F: You P

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

/oh 10 M: Did you have anything to do with that? W: No. In effect the Secretary as Administrator had read out the Kennedy task force--Joe McMurray. who had worked with the Secretary and who had been the chairman of the Kennedy Task Force

Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

be in the tub, and he would talk to you and two or three secretaries would come in and take letters . He never stopped . At night, the conversation would go on during supper and right up to bedtime . I would say that the press that followed him from all

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

, and he was for Truman. So you'll remember that one night when Mr. Wallace was getting up some steam, Mr. Jackson adjourned the convention. That's attributed to many people. Frankly many people think I had something to do with it, but I didn't, and I don't