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- and had been governor of Illinois and had been helpful to Daley. But he was committed deep down in there, and this was even after that spectacular demonstration at the convention for Stevenson the night that he came out to the Coliseum. The mayor still
- 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Krim -- V -- 15 frankly surprised me no end, that the speech was a repudiation of him, the speech that Hubert had made the night before. Now I've never reread
- in reference to Paris talks; LBJ’s support of Humphrey; LBJ trying to give $650,000 to Humphrey’s campaign; election night 1968.
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , the President and Mrs. Johnson had Walter and Bennetta Washington and Tom Fletcher and his wife over in the afternoon. The President had said he'd read the FBI files completely on both men, and he'd never seen better files. There wasn't a fly in the ointment
- of the--? K: No. I read it in your notes, but it ties in with my own remembrance of the sequence. I think that was in November, was it? G: Yes. K: Yes. Because in November he was talking about the Russians still inviting him. Now, you've got a lot
- working at a deaf and blind school, where I supervised some boys for two years. Then I worked at a county hospital every night of the week from midnight to eight o'clock in the morning. So I was working about a hundred hours a week, and then clearing
- secretary who was Harry McPherson who went over to the White House. Senator Fulbright got a copy of the policy recom,::len- dations of the draft and he had also apparently read other things of mine. We'd been on symposia together, public symposiums. M
- to Medicare that you haven't talked about? M: No, I don't know of anything else. I know we had the twentieth anniversary of it in 1985, and Wilbur [Cohen] and I prepared an article for some publication the department put out over here. You've read that, I
- know, I want every person to be two people to a room, you know, on this trip and I want II And he was capable, then, of sort of abusing you if you didn't fulfill this. He was capable of getting up in the middle of the night and going around to see
- factotum. was in the Eisenhower years. This I was in Washington for a meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and at some raucous late-night party I ran into Lyndon and Lady Bird. We were standing around talking and drinking--it was very
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener
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- Sidney Saperstein has read the transcript, and has made only minor corrections and emendations. The reader is asked to bear in mind, therefore, that he is reading a transcript of the spoken rather than the written word. LBJ Presidential Library http
- for two years and then went to it was called the Oregon Normal School then for a year to get my teaching certificate. Then by summers and night school I finished at the University of Oregon. K: With a degree in English? G: Yes. K: And then when did
- a week, sometimes every night in the week, and all he watches is documentaries. That may be a form of entertainment for him or a form of diversion, but it's still in that same line that I mentioned earlier; it's business. M: What kind of documentaries
- come down for that. Was that the year he flew around in a helicopter? F: Helicopter, thetis right. H: All I know is what I read about that. F: Did you ever S22 any instance [of it]? I think you told me about his losing his temper once
- with Bob Kennedy alone in his room at the Biltmore Hotel the night before that happened, and I had no inkling. I was totally surprised. I was totally outside that, couldn't contribute anything to it here. S: There's been a good deal of speculation
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldfarb -- I -- 7 I was reading stuff there and educating myself while I was serving. I read [Michael] Harrington's book [The Other America] the first day I arrived, because I hadn't
- well." He said, 'IWell, do you suppose you could get them to come out against me? II I said, "What do you mean?'1 "I'll tell you what happened. He said, .A little while ago I came home one night and I said to Bird, 'I'm tired of voting the way I
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- to say, "vJell, now, I called" so and so, and so and so, and so and so last night. These would be people all around the country. [He was] just taking their pulse, you see, to find out what their reaction was to this situation or that situation. He
- sufficient to put it across. That plus Shriver's energy and tre- mendous effectiveness on the Hill. I've written about this as-- I take it you've had a chance to read in this literature. I've done some writing on it. M: Was there somebody
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- an influence on Kennedy. That was one of the really great things about Kennedy; when he was president somehow or other he found the time to read a thoughtful book by Michael Harrington, or "a take-out essay" in the New Yorker magazine; and then having read
- , and that he did not want his presidential appointees participating in the personalities in the election. I told him I read him loud and clear. M: Didn't he ultimately send out a directive to that effect? B: Yes. M: This was before that? LBJ
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger
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- , and we'd spend the night, take our girls along . think anyone ever slept with a girl (Laughter) G: Where'd you stay? in those years . I don't � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
- , it's only reflection after this, and a lot of reading, that I realized that we had the wrong kind of units that we were advising. The Vietnamese division commanders were imbued with the 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- House of Representatives. (I seem to recall that he did this in one day, even though Mrs. Green's committee had not acted upon the bill, because he wanted to include it that night in a major speech on his big education bill.) Finally, however, we brought
- . It's going to happen, but it was particularly a certainty in his Administration because of his closeness to the press and his--1 guess there is no other word--this obsession with the news that he had. Re read the newspapers and listened to the radio
- commentator, debating with another man last night about eight o'clock, I believe it was. One man was debating in favor of Nixon and the other one came along and he came on strong telling them about McGovern. He said, "Thi,s is what you say about McGovern
- that require a ~·)ell Presidential signature. On many occasions at night I recall that from maybe from nine orcloel, at night until eleven o'clock at night, or nine to ten or ten-thirty, he would sit at what we called the signing table which
- : Well, I had no inkling that it was going to happen; I think anybody who read the papers knew that things were pretty tense and that there was an excellent chance that it would erupt into war. So I had this on my mind and it influenced my putting
- was to go around and visit all these communities where I was going to land to judge whether they had an area large enough for the helicopter to land in. Then that information would be passed on to me, say the previous night so the following morning, I would
- !" He was amused, and from then on it became the Quadriad. But just to show you how history goes, about a year ago I read a little item in the paper saying "President Nixon called a meeting of the Quadriad which was formed and named during
- --to the Yellow Oval Room in the Mansion. There was the Secretary of State and I guess the Secretary of Defense. I remember Lucius Clay was there. And Mac just turned it over: "Here's the draft that Walt did." President Kennedy read it and passed it to the Vice
- . I guess it was an Olympia. And he said, "Busby." He just kind of gestured and I knew that he meant for me to read his lead. He said, "Senator John F. Kennedy, at his Hyannis Port home on Cape Cod, Saturday morning accepted the sword of Texas Senator
Oral history transcript, Mack H. Hannah, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/26/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Butane Rubber Company, I read it in the papers, and I knew I was going to be grounded as a salesman for oil and gas. I phoned Homer T. Arbuckle, who was a big man with Gulf at Pittsburgh. I saw where he was coming down to be secretarytreasurer, and I
- a marine brigade and an air wing and we were in the Philippines already. All the planes were lined up on the runway, but nobody ever knew about it, and we had five thousand men there. I'd go to the club at night and play bridge in civilian clothes
- . Asking people to make extra carbons and asking them to pull from letters and routine and set up a reading file and all of that took us probably the first three months. After that we began to look around for the archival copies of speeches
- Russell. That was one of the criticisms of One night I heard the two of them visiting. The President had called Dick Russell to discuss important issues with him, but he later would pay little attention to his views. He LBJ Presidential Library http
- the committeeman and he would select the committeewoman and that when it came down to the choice he had selected you, but the liberals refused to honor this . B: I don't believe there's any truth in fact to that statement . I read that in a book someone brought
- artist. Let me ask you to tell how that tradition began. V: Well, let's see. I was reading a current issue of Vogue magazine, the ladies' magazine. There was an article done on several make-up artists in New York, and one of them was 6 LBJ
- it was real bad. G: Did he just need glasses to read? W: I think that more than anything else. G: Apparently it never affected his shooting. W: No. G: That summer, I have a note that he made his first long visit back to the Ranch after the election
- we get into Robert Kennedy's decision to run, or do you want to save that for someone working on-- K: I don't think I'd probably get to that-- F: Did you hear the President speak the night he removed himself? K: That's in March-- F: March 31
- Department. I don't see any of my notes here but I know the President talked to me and we were going to get rid of these commissions; we were going to do all of this and, as I said to you, the Vice President didn't know about it until Johnson started reading