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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Mansfield was never away that much. Johnson was like--again, to use a musical analogy--a [Herbert] Von Karajan. He flies into Berlin. He spends three weeks whipping the orchestra into frantic shape. They put on four spectacular nights of Beethoven and Wagner

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 4 (IV), 6/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, do you? G: Sure. B: Did you read that? I. 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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

directions in terms of the conversation. An example again: leadership breakfasts. If you take Kennedy and then Johnson, you had the same leaders on Tuesday morning. Each president has had the same briefing from me the prior night for his night reading

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

these people how that very night or that very afternoon after they left, there would be a reception in the afternoon, a tea with Mrs. Johnson, and in the evening there might be a state reception with the cabinet. Through this White House photographer

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 19, 1969 M: This is an interview with Dr. Joseph A. Pechman. Institution. He is at Brookings I am in the Reading Room of the Library at Brookings where the interview is taking place. The date is March 19, 1969

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

commitment from Martin not to act unilaterally in the future? C: He did try to get Martin to agree not to act, to give us notice of any action he wanted to take and also not to act without all the facts. But that also has to be read against the context

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of southerners that wrote the report on economic conditions in the South which I recolmlend all historians, particularly from Arkansas, read. It's a document that was produced to try to bring the South into the rest of the economy of the country_

Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

acquaintance with him and his staff when he was Vice President, but my first real meeting with Mr . Johnson was the night that he told me he was going to appoint me Deputy Postmaster General . P: Could you tell me a little of the circumstances surrounding

Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would go down on Friday morning, go to the races on Friday as pre-Derby races, and you'd have fun at night. Maybe go to the Kentucky Colonel's Dinner. Then, of course, they came to the Derby breakfast when I was Governor. Then we would generally come

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the things I found out when I got out there is that as usual, nobody had read any of the stuff that the Vietnamese were putting out themselves on what they wanted to achieve with the strategic hamlet program. Well, one of the things they had

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and the government's efforts. Anyway, we felt that it was important to design some coherent local strategy, and so we really put together on paper a pacification program, and we read all the things that we could gather from around the world. We got good help from RAND

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, that Johnson just withdrew. M: I remember some of the comments on the TV that night were pretty shocked-by people such as yourself. Z: I called and learned that it was true. Well, March 31, Johnson withdrew and our primary was that following Tuesday

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. S: It hurt him when someone criticized a friend. I'll give an example. I got up one morning and then read a paper, and somebody had jumped all over me. And he called me. "Well," he said, "you know, it's another example of somebody that supports me

Oral history transcript, Lonnelle Aikman, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

job was simply the text, in the makeup and that sort of thing--Bob Breeden will explain to you. That's very important in all our books because pictures play such a big part. In fact, I was just reading a few minutes ago in something else that I

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

sides they take? I've read, of course, all the stories on Louis B. Mayer and his friendship with high political types and so on, but I wonder what is the attitude at the executive level. W: Well, I think the executives have matured enough so

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

start to look at these papers, and now I look--you look at these papers, for sure going up there in 1966 with a State of the Union Message that I can tell you, I remember that night, [it] just blew their minds. A dozen or so brand-new programs. Nobody

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of all, this time, there was no circulation of the State of the Union to the cabinet. They had to come to my office to read it on the day before. That was the first time they saw it. And I went through with cabinet officer by cabinet officer with them

Oral history transcript, Tom and Betty Weinheimer, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. That was a grand occasion and the night that--it was in April. It froze the peaches. I think it was April 21 when Adenauer came because we had a freeze on Saturday night and he was supposed to come to mass on Sunday morning, and I'll never forget it because

Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

across it. If you came in late at night, and you always did if you worked for Congressman Johnson, because his hours were long, you walked across the floor and it would creak. His bedroom was just under this attic room and he kept a broom

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/show/loh/oh 17 B: Well, I was wondering if you had any specific instances of what you call the stubbornness that has sometimes hurt his activities? C: I think you'd just have to read his record. It's written down for you to see. B: Do you think
independence; wife's opinion of Lady Bird; strong Kennedy supporter; supper with RFK the night before his assassination; incident on plane after RFK's death; relationship between RFK and LBJ

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

pretty hard during that year? W: Yes, it was a rare night when I would get home before 8 o'clock. And in those days, the conferences with the Court were on Saturday, so Friday night--the night before the conferences--the law clerks would be down

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: He froze you out. C: Froze me out. And then he called me in one night and handed me this document and he said, "This isn't clear. This really needs to be spruced up and straightened out. Go to work on it. I want a clean draft tonight or tomorrow

Oral history transcript, Otto Kerner, interview 1 (I), 6/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and were all ushered into the Cabinet Room. The President did come in, and he read his executive order and appointed each of us. As he signed the executive order he handed each of us a pen with which he signed it. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

-seven and one-half per cent oil depletion allowance than any two men in the entire government. And the oilmen should have gotten down on their knees every night and given thanks for Johnson and Rayburn. ~1: And then they left him, though, in '60. K

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to walk around out on the south lawn. W: Oh, yes, he talked to me about it many times, usually with a very loud and angry voice. When he first became President, he asked me at the White House one night what would I do about the press. I said, "Mr

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 7 (VII), 1/18/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think there are many times he kind 1 of liked the idea of being in business. He liked to look over the radio station reports on Sunday afternoon, read what everybody did, have Mrs. Johnson make notes on what they should have done. She would

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

then at that time, or you just saw him? J: Just hello--a cordial handshake as he has done with millions of others. And then subsequent to that, while I was in night law school at Georgetown and working full-time for Congressman Edmondson, Tommy Boggs, who

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Kennedy read more than Johnson and had been in contact with students and with foreign leaders and so on perhaps more than Johnson. But Johnson had, I always thought, the towering intellect of that period over all the other people that he associated

Oral history transcript, Robert L. Phinney, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

think I'll ever be caught playing against the President, because he can read those LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] things bac~~ards--those so much

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

some connection between Brown and Root and Lyndon and their rise together. P: Right. Correct. You read many and many of those. He did advise wha t to do, as I I ve told you, advi sed fvtr. Herman Brown or George Brown, me or anybody else--"thought

Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for overnight camp . One night we got caught for shoot- ing craps out there, playing poker and one thing, girls and the boys . G: At Wimberley? B: Yes . G: Was LBJ along, do you remember? B: I don't believe he was . He always managed to stay out

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

thinking about Kintner. Here's Kintner having a staff meeting on all the minutiae of. . . . Okay. Now. That night, the agreement is reached, the President comes over, tells the press just before ten [o'clock] that there is an agreement, but he wanted to go

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to your attention? S: Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I mean, they were a godsend. We couldn't have run OEO without them. G: Did you have someone on your staff go through and read those and sift through them? S: No, sir, I read them myself. G: Did you? S: Oh

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

negative views about Viet Nam. I read Bob Shaplen's book a couple of years ago and I read a book by a man named Lucien Bodard called The Quicksand War, written about the French experience between 1945 and 1950. And I talked to a number of guys who had been

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 20 (XX), 2/20/1981-2/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in between, make speeches and then, at the night, there would be a major rally in a fairly large town. He'd go to Blanco and Johnson City and Round Mountain and Cypress Hills and Marble Falls and there make a sizeable speech. Meanwhile, we had our good

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went back home, and of course I was sworn to absolute utmost secrecy that I could never ever tell anybody that he had offered me a job. I came back down again the next week. I think I stayed in the Mansion overnight the first night. I did

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in smoke if he ever read it himself. But it's well worth having. What it shows you is that this was a man who had a traveling American senator's view--and a highly personalistic one--of how he was acting. So that the size of the bed and the shape

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

away from home. But then I enr'olled for about. let's see, I took classes per day. tvlO or three I took my noon hour and went to school and then I took one course at night, and in the summer I took a course from seven to eight in the morning. G

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Allred because I asked him if he knew anything about this young congressman personally--I had known of course what I'd read in the papers--he though very highly of LBJ. I said, "Well, we've got hell in our county to do much for him because our county

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

the night with one of them. ) You find that instead of a platoon, there are really only eight people there. maybe in a cemetery. You're dug in Actually, I'm using a small case history now. In our "platoon" of popular forces, underequipped

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