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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 11 (XI), Jan. 27-28, 1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

England with Lera Thomas. We were looking for antiques. Lera bought a lot of antiques, loved it, and knew a lot about it. I just loved the countryside and traveling. Every morning we would pick up the paper and read about the invasion

Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, the CIa thought highly of him. 11: The AF of L should have supported him, but didn't. I have read Vl2: in that campaign there was some confusion over the labor lSS~~_ Apparently Lyndon Johnson had voted for Taft- Hartley. H: He had, yes. H

Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and night it seemed to me, we had a series of meetings to put together the program, using the French model, using a book of draft regulations that existed in Treasury but not quite on all-fours for this. B: This is all specifically on the matter of-G

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

into the Capitol every morning before it gets real light and then crawl home at night after dark. I felt a lot of guilt about leaving my children, and Lyndon was always very empathetic about those problems on the staff. He even imported this really nice black girl

Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--dropped by my desk, dropped a newspaper on my desk, said, "You might like to read this." It developed it was my home town county paper. He had been born and raised about ten miles from where I had and of course I had never known him until that time. I

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of it was--at that time we used to read the political speeches and more or less edit them for possible libel. I very well remember the first Christmas, the Christmas of 1944, when I was invited to the station Christmas party and received a hundred-dollar bonus, which

Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 2 (II), 4/17/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to get the heat from the Senate commit- tee, our inspection people looked at it more closely. I don't know how you can make any kind of flat statement, except to say that in my judgment--and I read all the inspection reports and a lot of the other

Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] the paper. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -9- They just read his speeches

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 5 (V), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to use good judgment. You kind Most people are fairly responsible. But you get one bastard who I think was absolutely unreasonable, and it was this cut-outs. I think his problem was he was a fly-by-night operator and whatever money he had was all

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

he was at least tacitly giving his approval to these election plans . Bi : Well, according to the stories you read, he obviously was . hear it mentioned from time to time--mentioned with me . We used to Sometimes people I was calling

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Katie Louchheim, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. M: But which was never repeated. as far as I know. l: No. I was reading last.night, if I may quote from this year's record of events that the encyclopedia puts out, what the President had LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Carolina project, was in and out, but more· in than out. I can't remember his name. G: I'll look that up. 8: But the agency representatives, mostly assistant secretaries, like Lisle Carter and me, we [attended] faithfully all day and all night. one day

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to Omaha to attend a meeting and left there in the afternoon, went to Kansas City and on down to Oklahoma City, spent the night; and the next day they were having what they call a Friday Forum in the Chamber of Commerce, which in this case was a luncheon

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to criticize navy personnel or their operations, let them read it first, so if they wanted an answer they would be prepared to either give it to you at that time or later on down the line. due process in the finest sense of the word. Which I thought

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

/show/loh/oh 4 M: And what was that? R: I said, "You ITlUst have a short nap after lunch each day. You ITlUst take some exercise in the open, preferably in the swimming pool, and you must be in bed by ten 0' clock every night. If He kept

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

consent, unanimous consent. Because at any step of the way, in the old way of doing things, somebody could stop the operation. stop it then. They could But the Senate rules were so encumbered by all the things you had to do, like reading the journal

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It was, interestingly, at that convention that a then-young Senator named John F. Kennedy received his first nationwide attention. known him earlier, not really known him, but had met him. I had I had read his book, Profiles in Courage, and thought it magnificent. I

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

•~ nigh~, o: a broad sort on issues. do you.? and they have a sort of general agreement Bu'.:: both :::andida.tes are pres :irnably in':elli gen: men, and wh•en th•e Vice Presidential candidate reads the President ial cand[datcs speeches, he kn::iws

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Let me make two or three comments first about the President and foreign policy, because I don't find in any of the things I read--and I don't try to read all the Johnsoniana by any means. But the President in handling foreign policy, there are two

Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to something I've just finished reading here that one of the Brookings people has written, Mr. James Sundquist's book which covers the Eisenhower and Kennedy--Johnson years and draws contrasts. He has a section on the environment and describes what has

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

matched what they reported up with what we got from someone else, it was really awfully hard to feel that you had anything very robust or reliable. M: Of course, the non-NSC people who ",'ere involving themselves weren't reading the traffic. C

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Toward the end of the month, Uncle Tom Johnson died in Johnson City, and that was one of the sort of the loosening ties with the older generation. Lyndon flew to Texas for the funeral, just stayed, I think, just a couple of nights, long enough though

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, you know, just by happenchance. I think I was with Dad and Tony Buford from St. Louis and Mr. Johnson the night after Lynda Bird was born. B: What was Mr. Johnson like as a brand new father? C: Well, you know, that's a long time ago. My

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 2 (II), 6/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: There was some indication at the time that Mr. Johnson was not overly fond of George Hamilton. A: I read all those things, but I never heard the President say anything but nice things about George. I truthfully have no knowledge of how he felt about

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the King's Royal Rifles. My assignment was to man the rocket guns one or two nights a week in Hyde Park. During the first day of the V-l--well, the morning after the first night attack, when they were corning periodically over London and we were on the site

Oral history transcript, R. Vernon Whiteside, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that stuff much. G: Anything else on his activities relating to the paper, the student paper? W: No, not that I know of. I don't think I even read the College Star, much less had anything to do with it. I don't even know where their offices were. G

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

costs for planning to give them planning grants and low costs until fiscal 1989. I'm trying to read my handwriting here. I can't . . . . And secondly, telling him how we'd organized HUD. That is not the way HUD got organized because the Community Action

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the President a report memo. Other times you'd give him a memo in which you needed his concurrence of his decision on some-- M: This would go into the night reading? C: Yes. M: So through the passage of this bill, he knew everything that was going

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

office and they notify their headquarters who notifies us here and so it is a double check. And we dispatch an agent to check- it out. M: The instance that came to my mind, I recall reading in Time one which, I believe it was the FBI declined

Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, he did. There was another little episode that's very interesting, and that is, I read Marguerite Higgins' book, Vietnam Nightmare, and was pretty shocked to find out that President Johnson was against the overthrow of President Diem when President

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the upcoming campaign. At that time we were deeply involved in the Hardesty operation and trying to compile a record of the President's legislative accomplishments for the campaign. So the night of March 31, 1968, we had been given an advance copy of his speech

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 8 (VIII), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

tour charter technique. Unfortunately, from my standpoint, the brief was pretty well shaped up before I got into the case. I read it and reviewed it, but I had no real opportunity to focus on it in the degree that I would have had if I had argued

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 3 (III), 12/11/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. No explicit K: Nothing absolutely be that we could written agreement explicit on it, that but applied-- I think asslDile he was in agreement a fair since reading of it would he expressed no dis agreement. M: After that trying K

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

announcement, if my recollection is correct, indicated that we would take all bids on the first hundred thousand tons. McNamara and Vance had this meeting on the night of the eighth. On the morning of the ninth we put out the GSA release on the first hundred

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of, you know, a vague agreement that we would come up to see him in Maine and put something together. I reported that to the President. He said, "You're going up tomorrow." And so I, well, I called Muskie. He agreed. We worked through the night, putting

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, saying that I have this response from the RFC which I am presenting to the chairman for his information, and which I will read to the committee when this bill is renewed next week, provided your hold is removed. his point. Johnson. He said, "Okay. Go

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Well, this intrigued some of us and we got to work on it. some meetings over in State in the middle of the night. meeting lasted until 1:00 a.m. discussing this. We had I remember one We had some experts in land reform I personally thought it might

Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, after having attended night school at the University of Connecticut, you received your law degree and were admitted to the Connecticut Bar. And until 1951 you served as an instructor in the English departments at Harvard and the University

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

remember on the night of the election-- I think probably the legislature was in session at that time also--he thought he had won the election. My wife and I were living in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel, and Lyndon and his group were headquartered