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Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh WHITE -- I -- 7 of the night, or three days later or something, he's likely to get an idea that--in other words, he doesn't just come in and listen to you and then when you all have finished . • . . He doesn't drop the subject until

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the top behind you. So, therefore, it seemed to me that if that night I had to fight something there was only one thing to fight about and that was the abolishment of our present decentralized LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that happen? C: Well, he was a very active participant in the Little Congress, which was the organization of congressional secretaries. been the speaker of it. In fact, he had We met every Tuesday night. was very much interested in it. I, of course, I

Oral history transcript, Paul B. Johnson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/8/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that were taken that night, and, really, a pictorial history of everything that did happen. There are some things that are not in that record that actually did take place. For instance, under the order of Robert Kennedy there were 155 mm. guns, cannons

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

is you can never say "no" to a He didn't even ask me. He just assumed that if he said "yes," I would. I remember when I came home that night. The meeting had been scheduled for about 1:00 o'clock in the afternoon, and he got to me about 7:00 instead

Oral history transcript, Marjorie Lawson, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? L: Well, I guess I just heard about it when everybody heard about it. And I think everybody was very surprised, including President Johnson. When the muttering started, and it was like pandemonium that night, we got in touch with Congressman

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Then after that, whenever they came home they usually invited us up for dinner at night on one of the nights they were there or picked us up to drive around the Ranch with some of their guests. So it was sort of the beginning of a lot of fun times for me. G

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be reasonably close--"I'm going to be leaving my mother, too, and, damn it, you've got to do your share," and so forth. So we had a twelve-year-old daughter, and we hadn't told her about this at all, but that night at the table I brought up the subject with her

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 11/2/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of ten minutes to find out that John Vann was a very special fellow. He was the senior adviser to the Seventh Division, which was in the Delta. And I suppose the best way I can let you know my thoughts about John Vann is to read to you a letter, dated 13

Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

or that took you by surprise or that took you a while to learn to deal with. Is there anything particularly significant in that regard? D: Oh, yes. I don't think anybody can go into Vietnam, no matter how much they've read or heard about it, and really have

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go back and read his speeches about what would happen, and everything they predicted has happened. The problem of most liberals in America is that they don't pay any attention to history. They never LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that he was particularly concerned about it. He has discussed it. He has explained certain things to me that I think others didn't understand, because a lot of people were trying to read something into the--was it Duval 5 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Okay. C: I called out there. G: Did you learn about it from the President or did you read it in the press initially? C: No, I found out about it at 9:45 a.m. on the fifteenth of October. This is interesting. They don't even have the President

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

been the White Horse Division, but it doesn't make any difference, it was the division under the 9th Corps. He said, "They gave way during the night and there's no ROK division there now. in your artillery. The Chinese are now marching in strength

Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

ready to retire. He had been up most of the night and this was an all-night filibuster, and we were discussing some things which he said he thought I ought to be doing. So he never hesitated to utilize people if he thought they would serve a constructive

Oral history transcript, Walter T. Kerwin, interview 1 (I), 9/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

force BG [brigadier general], was the acting chief. Anyhow, off we went. We went down here to Andrews on the night of the twenty-fifth of May, in a KC-135, he and I and his aide, a couple of Indians, and Ambassador [Robert] Komer. We loaded aboard about

Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

wrongdoing. H: And it will continue I'm sure for years in the future, and I'm sure it's going on M: ri9~t now, night and day. But that committee is organized in such a way that the majority leader can influence the direction the funds flow, I take

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he wasn't, that's So then he got up and said that Lyndon Johnson was one of the greatest senators. You have all that as a matter of record in the Library, because they made a big book out of it, easy for you to check and read. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Press, owning a lot of AP papers, so forth. So I knew him quite well. was a pretty conservative businessman. Like most all publishers he Well, he wrote [an article]. I don't know whether you've read it but you might find it very LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

read that? N: Okay. This is a term that was popular in Vietnam for the combat-exhausted and for the shell-shocked. In World War I it was called shell shock; in World War II we called it combat fatigue or combat exhaustion, and in Korea it was called

Oral history transcript, Horace V. (Dick) Bird, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that? B: Yes, at night, late at night, we were in a plane or something, he He never got to be commander . What did he say? would say that he always wished that he could put that brass on his G: cap . But there was nothing I could have done about

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Had you been active in the preconvention maneuvering? W: No. F: Nor the cacpaign? W: No. I was working for a Republican senator who was running for re-elec::ion, and I S?er.t election night, November 1960, at Republican ..· headq::a.=t:ers

Oral history transcript, Douglass H. Hubbard, interview 1 (I), 6/4/69, by T.H. Baker (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HUBBARD -- I -- 3 H: Webecame involved in this project of the LBJ State Park in a very interesting sort of way. I guess it was almost midnight on the night

Oral history transcript, James J. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 7/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, it was a fairly small group of people. They looked over your background pretty thoroughly and you had to have recommendations from your commanding general and so on. And I started off on this. It's a marvelous program. The nearest thing, if you've ever read George

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

before the editors Saturday night, simply because the speech reflected so many of your suggestions and because you had read it and approved of it. Thanks, my friend; it certainly helps to have your advice, your counsel, and your friendship." So the fact

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 2 (II), 10/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] a lot of purple rhetoric by present standards, and Mr. Johnson just loved these speeches. There were speeches on motherhood and a whole bunch of stuff--very beautifully said, but very purple, the rhetoric. He would read these speeches to us

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, graduated from North Dallas High School, then took a B.A. degree from the University of Texas and an LL.B. degree from Yale Law School. M: From what I've read in the newspaper clippings, you made some friends at the Yale Law School that later had some

Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, it was most unfortunate that he was never able to get the public to fully appreciate the real Lyndon Johnson. One reads such cruel things about President Johnson now, all of which are probably based upon some minor issue or another, but all of these remarks

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 7 (VII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

were tempted to go with the Republicans. We had had very little luck in denting the Republican ranks, particularly after their Crime Committee or whatever it is came out with this condemnation of it. They just trooped right along. The night before

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that these materials weren't abused and misused. Here I was, a comparative stranger to the President, reading his letters and papers. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

time he came back to Texas. Not only that, but he would invite me down to dinner. Like he'd come home on a Thursday or Friday night, and before he goes in the ranch house, he would give already instructions on the two-way radio. He would tell

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to Roanoke, our destination for the night. The Blue Ridge Parkway is not designed for fast driving, as you know; it's designed in such a way that people simply cannot drive fast, so they can enjoy the lovely scenery. Liz, you know, is a very nervous flyer

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] Saltonstall, a Republican, and I forget the other one, as far as that's concerned. But of course that was during the Truman Administration, the Korean War. But you didn't read much publicity about the Preparedness Subcommittee. The reason I'm making

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the palace. I ran down and ran out to the palace to get up closer and so forth, finally got back to the hotel, and Alexander was there with other reporters and he began to say, well, maybe he was a little hasty the night before about how everyone loved Diem

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

coffee and donuts around the clock. The manager was out, store employees were out full time during the nights of rioting and didn't discriminate about whether they were giving coffee and donuts to rioters or nonrioters, but just reminded everyone

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

around at night and whatnot, but I wouldn't sit down and deliberately--he didn't like Cao, and John Vann, I remember one article where he said Cao was a coward. Well, I have never said things like that about Nhon, and Nhon was my friend to begin

Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh GARZA -- I -- 10 G: Yes, when I was nominated, then my name went over to the Senate, I was sitting in the gallery in the Vice President's box \'Ihen roy nomination came over from the White House. nomination to the Senate. They read my

Oral history transcript, Ann Oppenheimer Hamilton, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. the drafts weren't any good. And secondly, Galbraith came in and in two days at the outside of what must have been marathon sessions on his part, all-night sessions, he redrafted it essentially into the message that was finally delivered

Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

kind of a vacation and he needed some kind of a vacation, too, and he told me to take some time off. He was going to take Mrs. Wirtz and go on a trip. One night, however, while I was at a party Congressman Johnson and Senator Wirtz phoned me from

Oral history transcript, Louis Shanks, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1987, by Gina Gianzero (Item)

life in that regard. S: He influenced where I live today. A lot of people think I'm crazy, but I drive 140 miles to get to and from work every day. I live on a ranch out in Llano County. And one night the President told me, he said, "You better get up