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Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to formulate a solution to a problem? M: I think Bob Shaplen did. G: Did he? M: Yes. G: Can M: you--? The only specific I can give you is not within my own experience, I simply read about it in Frank Snepp's book [Decent Interval]. In the closing days

Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

really. I think he was My recollection is it was the morning after his arrival, or in any case the morning he was to depart. Actually, the first time I discovered there was a problem I think might have been very late the night before the departure

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

welfare work, because during the Depression the relief situation was so acute that the welfare department kept its office open at night . So I worked a swing shift . I went to law school in the forenoon and then came on to the welfare department, worked

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

directions. He'd approach different people to get opinions and whatnot, and I'll never forget it, he said to me on the occasion of that particular visit to the cockpit, "Well, what did you think about my decision that I announced last night?" or whatever

Oral history transcript, Ava Johnson Cox, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and it was our time to get up and talk on a subject, we would know exactly what it was all about. (Interruption) G: --the library at the University of Texas to get the literature. C: Extension Loan Library, and get the material on this and read up

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I think, when we talked Friday night, that he was a person that if I were you I would interview. He is getting up in years. This we'll take out of the transcript, but, off the record, but for your information he is up in years. F: He is still

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

telling me about your interest in politics and how you'd read some of the liberal journals of the day. C: My husband and I are orphans, and we had found through our connections with a conservative religious community that there were people who cared

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It wasn't easy to locate him. He used to tell Henry, Gonzalez~ 11 Henry, I can get hold of t he Pope a lot qu i cker than I can find you, because Henry's hours are a li ttle erratic, believe me. la te and works late at night. from his room. 11 He reads

Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

two or three Democrats to agree with us. I remember they had a book program in these foreign countries. I had been ambassador to India and I had seen these people just crowding these libraries reading these books. And the Russians had a big book

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 7 (VII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

here with Lyndon Johnson that was taken that particular night. But we had a briefing with [Secretary of State] Dean Rusk, [Robert] McNamara--the Secretary of Defense--to tell us about Vietnam policies, the very thing you're asking about. And we walked

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The only thing exciting Dudley Dougherty did was, as far as I remember, pay for the first talkathon. And probably the night before election he had some telephone on the statewide radio network, but none of us took that very seriously as a means of getting

Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the premier collection in private hands. In fact, I was reminded that I'd read about it some years ago in a book by Aline Saarinen, The Proud Possessors. And when I cast about looking at ways in which the posture of the Smithsonian as a whole could

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 6 (VI), 4/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with mud, but she had an extra dress that she had bought to wear to the program that night in San Antonio, so she changed immediately to that. And as the ladies came, she was poised and gracious, her usual charming self. You would just never dream that she

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

around the table in my office--we were actually rewriting the brief in my office, and I called Thurgood Marshall and read it to him and got his approval. G: And Ramsey Clark did approve at this point? C: Ramsey Clark acceded, I think it would be fair

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the three things I mentioned. I sent the President a memo on it and he exploded all over the memo. I read this here, [he wrote] "No, hell, no," but I mean if you look at the original of this you can see the pencil breaking as he was writing. G

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Union stuff, these stories? B: I'll check. C: Because they're important stories. This is the [Washington] Post, I guess: "There with an agenda rivaling the original Great Society program in scope, President Johnson last night laid before Congress

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

mean at the White House? M: Well, at the White House, often on a Saturday night with only a couple hours' warning. It wasn't a big party affair. F: Sort of ''You-all come?" M: That's right, exactly that. And then a few times just floating down

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Of course, King was very articulate, he was one of the best friends I've got. The bed we share tonight here is a bed he slept in many a night when he was in town. He never went to a hotel when he came through this part. He knew he'd come home. This was home

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that in and out a" it. By lying to the bedroom every morning as I did, I came in contact ~1 with the speech because by-and-large the various drafts were went to the President as his night reading. When I would arrive there in the morning the speech would

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

a few here. W: I think the first impression I had of him was of furious, almost incredible, energy. I also had an impression--now, this, as you know, [or] will have read about, was in the early New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson was deeply

Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Was this for action in the Pacific? P: For action in the Pacific, right, around Kelpart Island, which is just south of Korea, where we went into a harbor one night and sank a munitions ship that was at anchor. M: Did you have to go through nets and mine fields

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

running infrared missions at night, indicating great usage of these particular roads. also being used. Certain nighttime photography was But all of it sort of fitted together into a mosaic. This movement, as I recall, was what convinced myself

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was, I would lie to you in a completely relaxed frame of mind. Dudman: Well, I can write that up. Rowe: I don't want to read about Pan Am. Pan Am is a client and I don't want you to get this riled up. I will run my law practice; you can run

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Any insights? V: I don't know—I just know what I've read about what happened in Illinois. I don't know—I just have no way of knowing what did happen there. Possible. I think Richard Nixon thinks so. But then after the convention was over, I think

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 4 (IV), 4/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

when he had, you know, measured on any reasonable standard, scores of more important things to think about was deeply involved in this explosion in Congress. He read every night the transcript of the hearings before the House Veterans Affairs

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

objects would be hauled through the streets at nights, and things of this kind. F: It was difficult to gauge-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

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

, that ever occurred in connection with Lyndon Johnson was that my wife and I were invited to the White House to a dinner one night when [Eamon] de Valera, the President of Ireland, was over here. It was quite an occasion, and Lyndon and Lady Bird came walking

Oral history transcript, Florence Mahoney, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Then in Florida I was trying to get this mental health clinic started, but it was so distressing and awful. Then one day I read a story in the paper about a man, an Oklahoma newspaperman [Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, see his interview]. He had gone to see

Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the assassination . B: That is true . THB : And may I ask here too, for the record, are the direct references to you in William Manchester's Death of a President generally accurate? B: I have never actually read Manchester's book . My wife has read

Oral history transcript, John Fritz Koeniger, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that there's some misinformation Some people may have got the impression from reading articles, material about Lyndon, that Sam Johnson was. a tenant farmer. I think Lyndon htmself may have empnasi.zed that very brief period in Sam Johnson's life that he

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

rearing by improving the quality of the homes in which the children would be nourished and so forth. I brought that to the Secretary, I think I got it retyped and turned over to him about Monday or Tuesday. he immediately became enchanted with it. He read

Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. And that was always· very interesting, because Senator Johnson would usually have a little press conference, right ahead of time, in which they asked him things. to work early. So, I did not get I'd get to work about nine o'clock, I guess, and read the record

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of that in Saigon, but nevertheless, as a practical matter it wasn't a matter of affecting our operations out there beyond that confirmation that U.S. public support was collapsing. G: Did the Vietnamese read it that way? Z: Oh, I think they were very concerned

Oral history transcript, Jonathan Daniels, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 1971 INTERVIE"VlEE : JONATHAN DANIELS INTER7IElfER : JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: His home at Hilton Head, South Carolina Tape 1 of 1 F: I·fr. Daniels, I suppose I should confess that I read :rour father's life of Hoodrow Wilson when I was in the fifth

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with both camps. But, anyway, we then spent the night at the hotel talking until sunrise, and he asked me if I was going to support Kennedy. And I said I would. As you know, there was a real Baptist opposition to Kennedy at that time. I think they were

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- II -- 5 call second level or third level decisions, not of the highest importance or urgency, which are nevertheless significant enough to come to the Budget Director. Here the responsibility of the Budget Director to try to read the President's

Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and sat me next to him and continued all through lunch. On the way back to Washington that night, Sarge and I were flying in that Jet Star, or whatever it was, Shriver said to me--and I assume you want it the way he said it--being the devout Catholic he

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

of an overview or summary- 0: November 20, 1966? G: On Yes . reading these I feel you made some rather uncannily accurate--I won't say predictions but something along that now, how do you feel line . Looking back about some of the things that you

Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, and actually discussed them when he went off in a jeep with Chancellor Erhardt. I know that because Jack Valenti called me up in New- port since the only copy of my memo was in the President's pocket. I had to read my copy of the memo to the typist

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

reports that he was having arm pain. In discussing it with him I determined that he was having no troubles. And so I was with him then until probably eleven o'clock the night of the assassination. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org