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Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think he wanted the luncheon to begin with? H: Because he didn't know the heads of the newspapers or the chains, people like Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspapers and the old [New York] World - [Telegram &] Sun. He knew reporters who covered

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Washington, and I was absolutely incredulous. It was a terrible shock. The other co-chairman of SANE was Stuart Hughes, professor of history at Harvard. With the two executives of SANE and us two co-chairmen, we cooked up a very indignant telegram

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

that Bundy was scheduled, before he was sent down to the Dominican Republic, to speak at a teach-in, a Washington teach-in. that very day. M: That's right. That very day. G: And he left and sent a telegram. And the image that was left was that the same

Oral history transcript, Kathy Teague and Weeze Pollei Shumate, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was crazy. But I still don't regret it; I'd rather stay here with my daughters. G: How old were they at this time? T: Gilda was eleven and Andrea was sixteen. Both very impressionable and-Yes, darling? P: February 20, 1961. You've got telegrams here

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

getting telegrams from governors and mayors from the harder-hit cities like New York and Miami, Chicago. Jack Connor wanted to move to support the legislation. Ginsburg wanted to move to support it and base it on stabilization. Larry O'Brien wanted to get

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Minneapolis Star [saying] what a fine senator I was. Which was just a shocker, because I was being attacked by all the Republicans out there as not being in the mainstream of the Democratic Party, that I was one of the wild-eyed jackasses and radicals

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hurst -- III -- 11 collar and thought it was a star. Well, I was just embarrassed to death. And he said, "I don't think you ought to worry about that. That's just a little thing

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

HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- VII -- 2 teacher friends. I just know that every member of the White Stars had been

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, PTO. Decorated Bronze Star, Democrat. 18

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

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

know. I don't remember any elevator operator stories. I remember all the stories of his being in California later and meeting Nancy Hayes, the movie star, and also his story about John Connally and the silk robe. G: I've never heard that one. C

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that this was so. So we zeroed in-- two or three of us at least, Dick Fryklund, who was with the Washington Evening Star, and Dan Henkin, who ,vas editor of the Army-Navy-Air Force Journal, and myself--zeroed in on Cy as someone who knew very well what was going

Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

would have been a four-star general, I don't know, the big VIP treatment, in terms of importance . taken up there, But he was given spent the night at Abrams' � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. there any consultation among the services to find out how they would feel about your appointment? W: I doubt it. Normally, certainly not on a military level. The Joint Chiefs of Staff pass upon the appointments of all three and four star officers

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

3 that Lassie the dog television star? W: Lassie the dog, yes. B: Did you get to meet Lassie? W: Oh yes, I've known Lassie. B: Did the President get to meet Lassie? W: Oh yes. B: Didn't pull her by the ears or anything? W: No, no, no ear

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

value of his pay and allowances-- G: For himself, is that right? C: As a four-star general. So as LeMay started talking--and McNamara said, "Mark that page because when LeMay starts making his case I'm going to slide the book under the President's

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Where did you first get in President Johnson's orbit? H: I was a commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, appointed in September of 1962, and a year later, while I was in Brussels, I got a telegram from President Kennedy saying that he

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hopkins -- I -- 7 the king." Telegrams and messages began pouring in from all over the world. When Mr. Johnson did not occupy the White House immediately

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

had been approved by Governor Brown, but we sent out a telegram to the grantee saying, in effect, "Hold everything while we investigate." What we were investigating were some reports, brought to our attention by the delegation of a California

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

married, and we went to the wedding. I got this telegram. That's the first I knew about it, that I was appointed delegate to the United Nations. It was a complete surprise to me, because I didn't even know they were talking about me. Of course the FBI

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Sisco -- II -- 7 and he, I think, did it in the best sense of the word, namely by writing telegrams, writing memoranda, doing as one should do within the bureaucracy. But he sought to influence not only the policy on Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the Wall went up, Rusk. and he carne horne and he talked to the President and Dean So they selected about twenty-two of us from both parties to go over to Berlin and take telegrams from all of the mayors in the country telling the West Berliner's how

Oral history transcript, Annette Ludeman, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

him when he was retired and he sent a beautiful telegram when my dad died in 1969. G: Let me pause here. I think what you are referring to is what I have referred to as "an older teacher," an older [inaudi~le]- L; ·Well, that would be Miss Mamie

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. But that one month of the year that it got involved in the U.N., the action telegrams didn't go to the Far Eastern Bureau--obviously, you cleared and coordinated your position, but it went to the U.N. Bureau, which meant that you dealt with every major foreign

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

bad bu s iness for t he Pre ss Secretar y no t to be there. expec ted to be there. He 's They want him to be ther e . F: They l ook f or him . C: He 's kind of t he star a ttrac tion , yo u know , and th ey want you to be t her e . It hurts t

Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the same flagpole--was a flag that looked a lot like an Admiral's flag, and it got Admiral Felt interested. It was a big triangular blue pennant with a white border, quite big, and it had five stars on it, and a big LBJ in the middle of the stars. I must

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, astute pragmatist. F: You had a dark star coming up in a neighbor over here in Joe McCarthy. I think you and he had been on Government Operations at the outset. H: Right. F: Now, I rather gather that Joe didn't show much at first, but just gradually

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXIX -- 21 Russell. Paul Bolton said that down the line, [Lloyd] Bentsen may be the rising star. We, in Lyndon's committee, General [Carl A.] Spaatz, a colorful, hot

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

. Nobody was talking; it was a very silent, expectant group: what did this hold for us? We'd always looked up at the sky as a scene of sort of romance, with stars and the moon and just a dear, familiar part of our world. Suddenly, there might be menace

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

not give too fair an interpretation of what went on. Interesting thing--the Stars and Stripes --got copies from Viet Nam and all over the world--did as good a job about printing what we said and what went on than almost any newspaper, because Associated

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Davis -- IV -- 19 probably had that bearing beforehand, being a five-star general. We saw it in Kennedy and I saw it in Johnson. Certainly you saw

Oral history transcript, Joe W. Fleming II, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

some of the meaner ones like Jack Carmody and Bob Walters of the Star and Nick von Hoffman and certain others, at least I think, felt that when they called here they would be treated with decency and with a real attempt to give them the facts

Oral history transcript, Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Texas Eastman, LeTourneau and so many other's. Lone Star Steel, I think, in the Daingerfield area. But [he ','ias] a pov:erful man in every respect, molding public opinion, Morning Journal and also some weeklies in the area, you know, Greggton

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)