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

to be just scientific satellites and that's the way ours was planned, with the Vanguard. So he had all these witnesses come, and I remember one day we met from about nine in the morning till nine at night interviewing all these people and getting answers

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, been FDR's secretary. She We drove through the night, and we expected that when we arrived, because it was quite late, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think he was aware of the fact that he was actually doing a favor for a friend of Bobby Baker's. I'll never forget what happened then. One Sunday--I always read the Baltimore Sun on Sunday, because I thought it was about the best paper in the country

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the language of the draft. Jerry Siegel, as a matter of fact, would read a certain portion of it, and then there would be some discussion and we would go on in that fashion. One of the curious and little personal asides was that in that early draft

Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came to Washington from Sherman, Texas. I came up to Washington in 1939 after I had graduated from Abilene Christian College. I came up in June of 1939 and looked around town to try to find a job so I could go to school at night, maybe Foreign Service

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- III -- 5 Johnson would jump him every once in a while about this image, because--again, I may be repeating myself--in 1944 when the University of Texas Board of Regents dismissed as president Dr. Homer Rainey, the night

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Charlie a bad deal, Brownell?" "Damn right I do. Yes." need," backing from Homer, you see. Lyndon said, "Well, that's all I The reason I brought it up, I'd convinced him on the plane, then I brought it up that night. All right. Then the next night

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the train. And of course some of them got on late at night, some of them came in the back door. Some of them, a few of them, fortunately stood up and didn't make any bones about it, like I was doing, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Roy L. McWilliams, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you know anything about the story that we've heard, how LBJ went out and helped get enough votes to put the White Stars :andidate over? r~: I've heard the story, but I probably don't -know any more about it than you or anybody else who read

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

o'clock in the afternoon. body back here that night. As you know, they brought his President Johnson--of course he immediately became President--called me quite early, somewhere between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, the very next morning

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on back to tk. Rayburn's apartment. walked in. I was reading my paper and Mr. Rayburn And he asked me the question, IIWonder what's going on down in front of Lyndon's shop?" F: He didn't know, either? P: He didn't know, either. And I said, "We11, I

Oral history transcript, Archer Parr, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1984, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Parr -- I -- 5 P: He didn't talk to him on the telephone either, sir. After I was married and what have you, I lived with George for quite a while. And George and I would sit around and talk at night. We'd cook supper together; he'd

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the administration and join his campaign, it was never a major effort on his part and it was with the understanding I was not going to do that. I never would have. I would have remained with Johnson until the end of that year. All of this blew up on that Sunday night

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 13 c: Exactly. That was Sunday morning. On Saturday night we went over this draft; Bundy, McNaughton, Alex Johnson and one or two others were

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Secretary McNamara that Mrs. Anderson should go to Vietnam. what arrangements can be made about this." See So I was pleased and thought probably after a couple of months I might hear from him or something about it. When I got back to New York that night

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

forty, and said, "Look, you folks obviously must have been doing a good job, because it's only the bad ones you read about, and I haven't read anything bad. tenure or job? So why should \'Ie worry about our I expect you to continue to do the work

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

couldn't leave. And also the trip to the Dominican Republic. B: Just from reading the newspaper accounts, he seemed inmensely. R: to enjoy those trips Is that a correct version? Yes, he enjoyed certain parts of the trips, did not enjoy others

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of calling Lyndon because he hasn't read the cables. When you get into one of these things you want to talk to the people who are most i n v o l v e d , and your mind does not turn to Lyndon because he isn't following the flow of cables." That was the only

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DOUGHERTY -- I -- 7 D: (Laughter) I was given the text of these speeches, and they read well

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

had that in the memo to me There was just lots of evidence of that sort that he did his homework . M: Did a lot of this go into the night reading? � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

from time to time about whether he might draw upon himself another heart attack.He worked late at night, he worked early mornings, he took his evening reading to his bedside with him, and that kept him up frequently most of the time until one or two

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Investigating Subcommittee. B: This was one that LBJ chaired at that time. I am not going to be a great amount of help to you, because once you lead me from the Senate floor and go to the committees, all I know is what you read in the newspapers and so

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

came in, he was an old :ial of the Speaker' s , and the Speaker said, "This is one I want . " I had his Ci vil Service report because he'd been in and it was rather voluminous and I'd read a ll through it. We always c l eared them with the Bureau

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

made the mistake of ever walking in his office. So that night I was on duty at Marvin's desk. Were you going to ask something? G: I was just going to say, even in an emergency? J: No emergency. There wasn't any such thing as an emergency. You had

Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 2 (II), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Congress operates today came during the war. I'll come back to your question in a moment to get in an important observation. Night before last a man asked me--he said, "Dr. Judd, do you think the Congress is better now than it used to be?" And I said

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me disheartened cablegrams that night and we were deeply distressed . Then on Monday came a cablegram from the President saying, "Here's your wheat .' I don't know . Now, why, Was LBJ playing games with these people? I don't suppose he changes

Oral history transcript, Harold W. Horowitz, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was to do my day's work at HEW. I don't know if all people were doing that, but my work on the task force was at night. It threw our car-pooling arrangements just utterly out of whack completely. I really had a logistical problem because I could

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, but which existed prior to OEO. There was interest in things like that and what they were doing about the jobless and their fix on these kinds of problems. G: All this was beginning to came to. the fore. I've read several accaunts; one that comes

Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, we were speaking every night to as big a crowd as we could whomp up. And there were He LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

about the study that you did in the 1970s. Was there an intelligence input to the Policy Planning Council, or did you simply read the SNIEs [Special National Intelligence Estimate] and so forth that everybody else had? RG: Well, we worked closely

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

or not. What about a joint announcement? You announce what you are going to do, we announce what we're going to do. Wouldn't that be on the whole better than us doing it otherwise?" And this was duly read to the Geneva Conference the 16th of April by the U.S

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it except as I read about it in the newspapers . Ba : If I may postpone it, I was going to ask you about the one thing you would have been involved in, the Wilson and Kosygin meeting, but if I may postpone that for a moment . B : Ba : Yes . You

Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-to-late afternoon, and then they stopped in Paris, and he was photographed in the Lido that night. (Laughter) I used that once with [Walter] 16 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

paper--called to doublecheck that it was an accurate story that they were reading on the AP and UP. I was surprised at how many did call to doublecheck it. 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, William A. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for granted then. They could bust out of that and go any way they wanted to. We were coming in from Delaware one time, Senator Kerr and I, late one night, from a speaking for the re-election of Senator Allen Frear. At this time--this was 1958 or 1959--people

Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

American part of the thing. Which I learned a lot out of, but the basic fact is that Castro was just about in power, so there was nothing anybody was going to do about it except read the stuff for background. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to get out of the capital, get out of the city. for peanut farms. So actually I was fishing around We had read that peanuts were grown there. I assure you our Embassy would have been the last to know because we had the old world type of ambassador

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and we could really hot-dog it, and we'd needle these guys every time we saw them at the club that night. But it did become the Twentieth, the wing did, and then it was moved to Shaw Air Force Base, still in Mustangs, and then the jet school opened up

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

an unusual relationship, and I think this was He said I was his first Republican appointment, and the first one not committed by the Kennedys. Now since then, live been reading that Hamer Budget feels that he's the first Republican appointed