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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was upholding the Voting Rights Act in Texas, which he wrote, to get a sense of where we were. But I do not know why, for such a master politician, how that miscalculation on Russell was made. And obviously Russell read it as his guy being held back. Maybe

Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

pressures they worked--I wasn't there really--but the fact of the matter is there have been very substantial amount of hearings. And if you go back and read the Senate report which I wrote at that time, I documented the amount of hearings that had been

Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

this country boy approach. He said he was having to go to these NSC meetings and read all these papers about foreign affairs and things and he really couldn't follow them. He needed somebody who could help him to understand what these were all about and so

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. But all this is in the testimony. You might want to read it if you're interested in the subject. G: Right. Okay, now I'd like to turn, if we can, to your present job as Director of the Elections Research Center. Ird like to go back to 1963 where you

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

years, 1961 and 1962, something [he'd] read in papers, something that he had an interest in. I don't know whether I suggested it or who suggested it. It was suggested, "Listen, why don't you formalize this business and draw everybody in?" That was what

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the [William] Blakley-[Ralph] Yarborough campaign. You could have read the Texas press for weeks and not had the faintest idea that there was a man named Yarborough running. lous! It was ridicu I remember once when both Yarborough and Blakley happened

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. [I said], "Let's just the people that meet in this room come over to my house and have dinner some night next week and just sit around and talk about everything but what we talk about in these meetings--where we send our kids to school, 9 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

not all that demanding. He wanted a darn good reading light above his bed and a darn good shaving light in his bathroom. Incidentally, I think I have told you about Aunt Frank's two bathrooms? Well, sometime, years before, I think very early twenties, she

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 5 (V), 8/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But it was probably I'm sure we didn't wait for it to be completed. may have been completed G: the highway's changed first~ It but they were working all over the state. I've read the story, and it may be apocryphal, and I'm not sure it pertained to a roadside

Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

seven-day weeks until about midnight and sometimes all night, all of the ideas had been pulled together and organized by categories such as education, health, foreign aid, foreign trade, and so forth. And then a meeting was held to discuss the ideas

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

hours, night and day just about. So we kept on persisting, and we finally got a piece of legislation through the House Committee and through the House. But in the meantime a Senate committee got a different piece of legislation passed which

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in the Governor's Mansion in Austin. G: Not many people can make that claim. M: I'm sure that many people have spent the night in one or more of the places, but I may be the only survivor who has slept in all three of them. But we would visit, as families back

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a week with the department heads. I was always kept informed. a glamour boy. I must admit that that's not the way to become It's just hard work from morning until night, and you don't run around the country making speeches. work. So that You pay

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

; Doctor of Laws, Tusculum College, 1965; Reporter Temple, Tex. Daily Telegram and Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, 1947-48; mgr. for S. C., United Press, 1948-49, night bur. mgr., N.Y.C., 1949-53; mgr. London bur., also chief corr. U.K., 1953-56; vp exec. editor

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. side turns. instance. He'd gone through a number of back flips and He'd created a committee on the consent calendar, for You know, on the days when they call the consent calendar and they read the titles and nobody objects, the bills become law. So

Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)

of the people who jumped on Pat had not then seen the report and may not until this day have read the report. It was not the report itself and the substance that caused the hurrah, except maybe in very, very few 2 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

had sensed, and ',.,hat the sentiment was, as I could read it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the use of all-night sessions and things like that. M: Yes. Oh, physical breakdown, ordeal. Yes, he believed in that. I think that's one reason he was partly right against cloture, said, "Look, you just 1eave this thing and you get a really tough

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

around in the car, working late hours, because I'd missed so many hours interviewing that day. I get home that night around nine o'clock, and the phone is ringing off the hook. It's Stalfort again and he says, "All right, what the hell did you tell

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

purple stains on it. It turns out that it was what we used as our Saturday night bar about midnight when we would serve chianti or the cheapest red wine we could find to our dates, because it was just the most fantastic vista of the city. All of those

Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, but educational in the sense of learning how to care for themselves and how to work and how to make a living and how to earn money, and I think it was highly worthwhile. I'll have to say for Lyndon Johnson, he worked night and day. There weren't LBJ

Oral history transcript, Jerre Williams, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Acres Club, and the President came there that night. He stayed and chatted for half or three-quarters of an hour, and this was a very interesting, quite close personal chat. very much about it. I don't remember It was strictly on a non-business basis

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh We used to go around and follow each other around Lackland Air Force Base at night, picking the blankets off these poor kids and asking them whether they were warm enough. It was almost a comic

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

-- 8 me I could wait right outside the door. I asked them where could I spend the night. And they showed me to a room close by. And I called home to let Zephyr know, and Luci, and Lynda if she was there--funny, I cannot recall about Lynda at this moment

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Mayor [Richard] Daley was incensed at it and probably called the President or one of the president's assistants and the President was very much annoyed. And I was one of those who was in the meeting with the President at about seven o'clock at night

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

representative, regardless of the seniority or the elegance of the participants. And he used to send me out into the countryside quite a lot to give him a different slant, if you will, on things. he also used me as a sounding board, I think. And I read

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

them a piece of his literature, and he said, "I'm Evetts Haley," and he said, "and I'm running for governor." And he said, "You read this, and if you don't believe I'm the right guy, by God, you just vote against me." And then the light changed, and he

Oral history transcript, Price Daniel, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

handled his campaigns that his responses would be that so many of them were gone, were dead. In many counties a majority of those still living were against him and were for me. So I began to read the handwriting on the wall when I started getting

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

day or night he wasn't prepared to charge in, I think his readiness to participate created a different kind of responsibility for me. And I tried with some degree of success-- G: Did you succeed in this way? O: Yes-- Tape 1 of 4, Side 2 9 LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or difficulty. In fact, my association with him as president was similar. But what he might have inwardly thought about his role or about us, I have no idea. I read with interest an excerpt you have of a conversation that he had with Ted Sorensen, and my

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

fifteen reports, and we were not only able to read the reports for the first time and not just the summaries, but we had enough time to think about them and to develop more fully some of the ideas, enlarge them, and ask the Departments and agencies

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

me ask you to describe the-- S: There was a fourth person there, too, Al Peery. Kathleen up. Al Peery drove The meeting was at night, and they drove up from San Antonio on those back roads out of San Antonio. Jerry and I drove down together out

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at five o'clock in the morning and go through all the tapes, all the cables, everything that we had from Geneva, try to sift it out, and find out what might be of interest to the Congress, what they should know before they read it in the paper

Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of truth to that? W: Newsweek? M: Yes, I read that just the other day. W: That is absolutely ridiculous! that. Moyers didn't figure anywhere in I think Phil was impressed with Moyers. about him frequently after com~ng He spoke to me back to see

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the people he checked it out with didn't know any more about it than he did, and they all read it, and they all arrived at the same conclusion. ''Well, it's okay." F: I know that the State Department and the White House go to great lengths to see

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

was going to die right there on the Senate floor while we were talking on civil rights, and all those long, long nights, and yet at the same time he was determined to hold them in session until some decision was reached. The Senate did pass a civil rights

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

district with any sort of problems they had. He had a very broad scope. F: Did you work out of Hempstead or out of Austin? H: Both, but primarily out of Austin. F: Where were you the night of the election? H: As I recall it, I was in Austin

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

given to some of the women on the trip, women reporters. We went all the way around the world and when we were coming back, our last night out, we stopped in Bermuda. was a little party. As sometimes happens on those trips, there Those of us