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Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to the office around seven to seven-thirty in the morning and leaving anywhere from nine to midnight every night. F: Comparatively the volume of work was just as great then, considering the size of the staff as-- C: No question about it. During the day we'd

Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

continued our mvn private discussion of that conference far into the night. than I had ever known her to be -- during all our year's together. We had, for a long time, been ~ccustomed sessions ,,,ith small groups of my dents. She was more serious

Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 2 (II), 10/15/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

http://www.lbjlibrary.org -9More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 8 o'clock that night. And to make the arrangements. me much

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside and Walter Richter, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

inside the convention hall because they didn't have enough places for reporters, and he was a reporter for the College Star and he had gotten in and he wouldn't leave. He slept on the table, and they ran it day and night, and these other reporters, him

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 4 (IV), 5/13/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with that first day that you went out to Johnson City or that evening, and if you can recall that night in as great a detail as possible. J: I recall it very vividly. Let me go back before that a little bit because the things leading up to it are slightly

Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

be willing to help them do some administrative organizational work in connection with setting up the Community Action Program and I docd that. At first it was an hour or two a week and then it became every night. Finally my boss said, '~ell, you're

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 1 (I) A, 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: That's pretty high level approval before announcement. T: Well, that was when it was in the formulative stage. I remember I was at home watching the President on television that night, and just before the braodcast, the phone rang and a reporter from

Oral history transcript, Callan Graham, interview 1 (I), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the history of those machines down there--and I think at least the Parr machine was broken up, it's a thing of the past, I guess, from what I read in the papers, I haven't got any recent infonnation about it--they were originally, and probably continued

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

], the photographer, was in snapping our pictures. Later I was given a couple of the pictures, autographed by the President. Then when I got home that night Bess told me that the President had called her 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at that point and Mrs. Johnson called me. I of course went to the hospital in Charlottesville, University of Virginia, where Dr. Crampton was attending the President. I slept in a little small area in the coronary care unit that first night. He actually had

Oral history transcript, Volkmar K. Wentzel, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Westmoreland--I--7 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

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Partridge -- I -- 3 set of grant conditions for our first grants," and I did a cut-and-paste job one night. Those were the grant conditions that survived substantially unchanged for several years. G: Was that the Community

Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

say who, I just said "everybody." I remember Mayor Hiller made the remark that, nOh, those black boys are liable to get back there and sit with the white girls at the tables, where they'll be reading in the reading room. He was a very kind, lovable man

Oral history transcript, Keyes Beech, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it was impossible for Martin to control the situation there . I'm drifting way away from your specific question- G: No, you're not . B: But Martin--you know, he'd been reading [Alexander] Solzhenitsyn at this point . That's fine . And as I say, I was living

Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 3 (III), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

York, and I had the Badeaus to dinner there one night, and I saw him that time. I don't recall that I saw him again until he came out to Cairo two or three times while I was there and stayed with us. I saw him fairly frequently. We had no very strong

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to me once, "Didn't we decide all that earlier?" I brought him back a long memorandum when I came back from my visit, which coincided with the Pleiku attack in February of 1965, recommending a selective bombing program. He read it through in his bedroom

Oral history transcript, Edward G. Lansdale, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. talking about two or three days I At that I thought he was visit to Indochina, so I was quite busy in the Philippines, I said, yes, sure, lid come along. about eleven o'clock at night. there?" This was I said. "tfuat time are you going over He said

Oral history transcript, Lyman Lemnitzer, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

couldn't win this war with their Beau Geste tactics of holing up in the fortified city areas at night and then trying to keep the country under control in the daytime. And LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for that, taking care of his staff, as we have done with each president since I've been here, is because the members of the staff work pretty hard and they have hard hours. They get in early in the morning and leave late at night, when there's no barber shops

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and President Truman were never very compatible. They both tried, I think mainly for my sake, and there was no disagree-. ment between them. They both went to dinner with me one night, for example, and they just didn't manage to carryon a conversation

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

in the United States, was to cally--as systematic as a journalist does prepare myself to One of the things that I did, parenthetically, rather systemati anything, I guess--try to gather basic information about the situation in Vietnam, to read some

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of women who had to work. She just asked the most naive questions that you could possi bly believe, and we all sat around the room and just gulped, just gulped! And in the car going out to LBJ's that night, she [Mrs. Roosevelt] said to me, "Where did

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

brilliance is related to his ability to count votes, and I've read several places that next to Lyndon Johnson, you could count votes better than anyone in the Senate. Can you educate us on the process? B: How would you do this? One, he had a basic

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

there that helped raise her. We stayed there that night, and I asked them where they got the name of Bird--how she happened to get the name of Bird, and I was told that this old Negro that had to take and raise her said that when she was born, she said that she

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

and to stop at a old farmhouse that had been turned into a restaurant and have dinner first. This night, though, it was a great play and a very romantic and splendid actor. So I still have and cherish a picture of me and Sir Lawrence Olivier. M: When you

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to think about it. You just tell Weaver to resign," which I didn't do that day or that night, whatever it was. The next day we talked about it some more and the President said--and there was some merit to this at least in the thinking of the people

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and an interesting fall, because he got some of the meanest letters you have ever read: "I will give you two weeks to send me a satisfactory answer," and, "We sent you there to do," so and so and so, and, "You can be sure we'll get you next time if you don't do what

Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a copy of the book USA. Have you read USA? G: No. Was this Grover Sellers? B: Grover Sellers, that was his name. He put on a pair of gloves, I d o n ' t know whether they are cotton gloves or rubber gloves, because he wouldn't touch that book

Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and three nights here trying to figure out [what to do] . All the discussions have resulted in telling us what we couldn't do . Could we have a half hour before we go home in which you tell us what we can do?" faced . Well, he laughed and got a little

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

college, as I recall, and the kid--he killed himself on that night. I can't recall the precise story, but I made some reference to those children which were--it was totally inoffensive, as I thought at the time. But Graham took that reference

Oral history transcript, William Healy Sullivan, interview 1 (I), 7/21/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the essence of the degree to which our thinking had developed at that time; and I think if you read those Fourteen Points, you'll see that they hadn't really gotten down into sharp, precise details. The view that prevailed was pretty much the one

Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- I -- 3 M: Well, according to the books I read about this, your father was a pretty busy man most

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the speech to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Annual Dinner and he and Mrs. Johnson spent the night with Mrs. Hodges and me at the mansion. We had a chance to know them pretty intimately, and he made a good impression at the Jackson Day Dinner because he

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

did you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? Did he just drift in or do you have some specific--? R: I can't really remember. I have some vague idea--now this [may be] only because I have read it since, it may have been true

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the night before President Kennedy was assassinated. M: By President Kennedy? That would be after he was in Texas. S: No, I was sworn in here in the State Department. But it was the night before, so actually my first day on the job was the day that he

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McNeil -- I -- 13 M: Oh, he worked at it day and night. G: How did he do it? M: By having people in and by arranging for them to see people. Once, I've forgotten what the hell it was now, but Ev Dirkson had a story

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

." These were The compromise that came out was not what we thought we'd agreed to that night. If you remember that history, it was a fairly compli- cated package, for a non-technician, which was to cut budget authority by ten billion, cut appropriations

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

was pretty inept. I had a number of friends, who we'd spend the night at their house or they would come to the country with me, because I went home every weekend. I think I mentioned to you one time when Nellie Ford [?] and I and various others dressed up

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

ceiling 549,500. Then, I flew out to Clark .L\ir Force Base in the Phi 11 i ppi nes on the bJenty;;.fourth of f\1a rch, and I met with General Westmoreland and discussed this whole thing with him most of one night. LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Burris. The main thing that I remember is that as we were flying over--and it wasn't in a jet; that was the era of the Lockheed Constellation--sitting up with General Clay most of the night long. The main thing that I remember, quite frankly