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Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was in progress because the troops went by your house. Did we have no warning, no advance notice of this? C: I don't think any particular warning, no.I remember I went out to dinner the night before with the Ambassador and we certainly had no thoughts of that.We
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • picked up the word somewhere that I had criticized Johnson in something I'd read or a speech I'd made. Well, I had made a speech at the University of Chicago--it was the only thing I could figure--in the summer of 1962, which they had asked could
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 16 (XVI), 1/29/1980-1/30/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I probably got there around anywhere from four to five o'clock in the afternoon, but it was not unusual to leave at ten-thirty at night. It's marvelous looking back on that period to wonder at the amount of energy one has when one is young
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
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, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . In the late fifties, he came with Mrs. Johnson to a CBS affiliates reception in New York one night. was the Hotel Pi erre or the ~~a 1dorf, I don't recall whether if but I, of course, through a Democratic family, knew the Senator. F: In these sort
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • York before the hearings [in 1956], to try to find out what was bugging him. He had a counsel that was very negative toward not me, but toward the industry. I've forgotten his name. And Manny sat there that night--the only time I could see him
Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • was about; he had his two bits worth to say. I do remember that. That part is just about all I remember about him, during those times when I was eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve years old along in there. Of course now I've read this, too, but I definitely
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • reading a lot of stuff about his responsibility for this Vietnam War. He inherited that damned war! I've cut a tape for President Kennedy, and I've made it clear on that tape, I don't know what they've done with it, but the first combat troops were sent
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . So it certainly wasn't a bone of contention because I don't remember ever talking about it except more or less casually. I did send him a copy of my book. Storm Over the States, but I certainly didn't expect him to read it. F: It wasn't devotional
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 5 (V), 9/9/1982-9/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out to Buchanan Dam, days and nights. I didn't go every time and I don't remember who he and Lady Bird took with them or any special occasion, but he did enjoy it. [Reading a document] "Raise the price of milk or reduce the price"--"or reduce the price
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in a category by what I'm going to say, but I don't think it's atypical. First of all, I knew some about Southeast Asia. I had read some of the history. culture. I knew a little bit about their I believed absolutely in what we were doing
Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was living in Japan, Dien and I began to hear and read about this place called and so I went down there for the Chicago Daily News what turned out to be the end of to the Viet Minh Dien Bien Phu fell Accords . it . and at the time of the Geneva
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . I announced in January of that year I believe, so, yes, I was an early announcer. G: I've heard a story about that campaign or read it in Senator [Paul] Douglas' memoirs that showed your independence. M: Yes, that story became quite famous
Oral history transcript, Edith H. Parker, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • so that it will be easier for you to read over. background. Let's start with your You're not a native Texan. P: Right. G: Do you want to tell where you were born? P: Shawnee, Oklahoma. G: I believe you indicated that you lived in Chicago. P
Oral history transcript, C.W. Price, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: C. W. PRICE INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Mr. Price's office, Alice, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: . . . the manuscript of the hearings, and of course it makes delightful reading. But let us back up a minute, if we can. Something
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were all a little nervous about it and we talked about it, because this guy, of course, was an indefatigable worker. He worked from early morning until late at night. I don't quite remember whether this was the year that I became acting whip. I think
Oral history transcript, Mamie Allison, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • , just about one year. My father--that was in 1919--he was teaching in Beaumont, and the war was ended. He wanted to buy the Johnson place, and he had already gotten Aunt Jessie to say she would sell her part and then if--I guess if you read [Robert
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it on his own personal contact. He walked the streets from morning until night and I would go in a different direction. I did not make political speeches, but I circulated with people and it got to be quite a joke, because just to say "This is Mrs. Thomas
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they reacted very well. One of the cute stories about the White House years is that a senator attacked the President very strongly on the floor of the Senate the day of a state dinner, and that night he was on the guest list. Of course, COpy Lyndon B~ Jobnson
Oral history transcript, Murrey Marder, interview 1 (I), 5/25/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a time sequence, but I know I worked very late into the night on that story. And I see the Washington Post here, as I would have recalled, carried two stories, to exemplify what I was just saying. Well, actually we carried more than two; we carried two
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Saturday morning, he came to my office and we briefed him. And he was off on a plane Saturday night, and he went to Chile. G: Was Zimmerman knowledgeable about this aspect as well? C: Well, Zimmerman was the guy that convinced us that the only way we
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 22 (XXII), 8/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • make little notes in shorthand on the back of envelopes in my purse or I usually had a shorthand book around with me. So I was a kind of a conveyor for those late nights when I finally got to see him over those endless cups of coffee that I would bring
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • lamp and get a carbon arc, night lights for the Brewers baseball stadium, because it wasn't there. And for a Texas senator the thing was excru­ ciating. One of the problems of Texas, which is not well understood up here in the North, is that oil
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Domingo. I remember we were in constant touch with the Department of Defense. Decisions had to be made continually with respect to a number of matters such as whether we should try and air-drop troops in during the night, or whether we should wait
Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would think that he He'd probably have a paper, reading it or something, while you were talking to him. I told him that it was so funny that we had a chef, and he wouldn't eat his cooking. I said, "I have to teach him what you like. I feel
  • in the middle of the night; LBJ brings unexpected guests for dinner; LBJ gets ill on seafood salad at Glassboro; LBJ's eating habits; LBJ's recreation; LBJ changes moods between the Ranch and Washington; Richard Russell; LBJ turns off the White House lights; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Truman Fawcett and Wilma Green Fawcett, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as-they had a little collusion there, you knm'l, because the next night Lyndon would probqbly_do the same thing. He was supposed to come home and milk the cow before dark and he seldom got in before dark. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh February 1, 1971 B: This is the interview with Senator Lister Hill. here very briefly your background. Sir, let me just read You were born here in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1894, and attended the University of Alabama
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: BUFORD ELLINGTON INTERVIEWER: T.H. BAKER PLACE: Governor Ellington's office in the State Capitol, Nashville, Tennessee Tape 1 of 2 B: Sir, if I may read just a little background material. You were born in Mississippi and attended
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • an attendance of over seven thousand. Bobby [Kennedy] had gone to California, because we were moving into California immediately following the Oregon primary. It was rather a shock to lose on primary night. Bobby had returned from California. We were
Oral history transcript, Lincoln Gordon, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • all over the world. But in Rio it was a most dramatic thing. We opened a book at the chancery and another one at our residence, and over that weekend we had a line of people stretching for three or four blocks. It was continuous, day and night
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • talk for a second about your view of the nature of the war? From reading some of the communications that you made to the White House and some of the statements that you made for newspapers and at the trial, your view of what the war was about inside
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in drama that led to--? R: It might have been. And she did love to read, and she was a real learned person. And by reading, I mean, I'm sure she read plays as well as novels and history and everything else. Now this is simply a guess on my part
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • establishing the national forests one night and the next morning signing the act that took the authority away from him. Therefore, Udall had devoted much time and had his people devote six months to working up this presentation. very indirectly, but I knew
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and then lots of casual dinners for staff, newspaper friends, other senators. We began to branch out more in that year. The children's doctor was Dr. John Washington, who would come any time of day or night, if he felt that tone in your voice that said, "I'm
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • election first when he read about it in the Army Newspaper. 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://discoverlbj.org
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • these boys, so there were a lot of court-martials around there. So I would train the troops all day and then I would prosecute cases from six o'clock till about midnight every night, for malingering and for shooting themselves in the foot and for theft
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 2 (II), 6/2/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • of the writing, the next guy will read this and this will 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was turning us into a whole nation of zeros. I would argue with Dobie and in the process of arguing with him, he began to read a lot of the material that ol’ Bedichek and I would give him. Bedichek was a very liberal, very literate man that was well read
Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But Mr. Dunn was sent. It is highly probable that Mr. Greene may have gone with Lyndon and Bill Schupp. It all happened the same night. G: I see. S: And yet I can't find it in the book. G: Did you have to pay your own expenses-- s: Oh, no. Oh