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Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had to spend there waiting for the night train here, I walked over to the river and down to the river banks because the famous NC-4, one of the seaplanes that had gone around the world, was sitting at anchor dovm there while the officers and the men

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

crisis of great importance that lasts for a period of time 1 L: In that particular thing the President was kept fully informed at all times as to what was going on, partly by the Secretary personally at these Tuesday luncheons. We would get reading

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ella SoRelle Porter and Mike Porter, interview 1 (I), 11/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in San Marcos enjoy certai n advantages, sud] as bei ng able to 1 ive at home? P: Well, I suppose the advantages were that we were not under the strict rules of the college about when to get in at night, and what nights we could go out and that sort

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

his responsibility. If you read these languages it says, "In all safety matters the administrator's responsible in the case of aviation." What's a safety matter? The location of an airport as it fits into the air traffic control system is a safety

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

any project to Mr. Roosevelt- who hated to read more than one side of one sheet of paper--was to show him a picture, which Johnson did. Between myself and Ickes in the Public Works Administration, of which Ickes was then the head, we managed

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the national committee to go over the debt. Through the course of dinner, it became apparent the debt extended far beyond what I had heard or read about. My recollection is the debt was in the vicinity of nine million dollars, not five or six million people had

Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

game that night, but I had nothing to do with the halftime ceremonies. G: Well, did you have to make any special arrangements for LBJ’s attending these games, or was that in someone else’s hands? R: Well, we saw to it that he wasn’t in the end zone

Oral history transcript, Myron R. Blee, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me, "but his name doesn't come back ." Just warm and charming . F: Did she spend the night? B: No . At nine-thirty or so it came time for her [to leave] . When she was here, and I suppose that's the way she was as the first lady, we couldn't

Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of a real pressure chamber which would have led to a well-reasoned package. We thought we had one, the best available under those cirucm.stances; but this was hammered all day Christmas and it was hammered out all night Christmas Eve and it was every day

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in 1964? M: No, I read these stories with a great deal of interest, but-I couldn't detect any such movement. F: Did you see any overt evidence of the schism between the Vice President and the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy? M: No, I couldn't see

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was to be construed as establishing a quota system. How you could carry out the mandate of the commission and not have the end result a quota system was hard to determine. Yet, that is the way the mandate read. We advised Democrats across the country

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at. F: On.something like the New York Times in which you are not confronted--that is, the great general public can't read a by-line and tell whether it's white, black, or plaid, how does such a generally liberal organ have such a poor record

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

not, if I recall correctly, morning meetings such as I read in the paper that the Nixon ..l.drninistration White House has. F: There was nothing routine about these--every Tuesday or every second Tuesday or something like that? W: I think every once

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the first. It clearly was a commitment made by the party, and we all recognize the party platform probably isn't worth the reading most of the time, and I don't think many people ever read a party platform anyway after a convention. 5 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, William DePuy, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in early 1965 but neither side really knew it? D: Well, I don't know. He may have said that. The ironic thing is that in Stanley Karnow's book [Vietnam: A History?], which I'm sure you've read, a fellow named Bui Tin came into--and incidentally, he's

Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it to Heller to do something with. three of us proceeded and we read the message. and all that. We threw it away. Well, the It was nice rhetoric We had to have a message over at the White House by the next morning, and this was noon, so we wrote all night

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 40 (XL), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and John Connally, but you probably have read that they had been bitter enemies for some time. G: No. J: Never heard about it? They were. Ed Clark, to go back into hi s history, he comes from East Texas, and when Jimmie Allred was attorney general

Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Commission, and one of the commissioners died. Really, I hate to tell you how terrible I was, the way I used to read the death notices and rush into the President because that's the only way you could get a woman in. And so I rushed over to see President

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

letters There was one guy I'd have to give an awful lot of credit on this, and that was Clarence Mitchell. Clarence walked those halls morning, noon, and night; and he talked to Senators, and he talked again-all of this, I'm sure he wasn't by himself

Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

occasions, and there were no benefits in that for him. He believed it was important. He might hurt you on lesser legislation, but when you needed the AID Bill. . .Gosh, I remember one night when the AID conference was in deep trouble and he wasn't one

Oral history transcript, William M. Capron, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Virginia and that--the article I was trying to remember was Dwight Macdonald. The President got a marked-up copy of the Macdonald article, I happen to know, because Walter suggested we clip it and paste it on sheets of paper and send it over for his night

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

thing in those days, when you're very young. The school was at the end of Spook Lane and was then known as the Spook Lane School. Then after having gone to a really very poor high school in the county seat, Reading, Pennsylvania, I went to Swarthmore

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

recall or may have read, was Mrs. Sarah Hughes. From what I have [learnedJ in my investigations since that time, as near as I can tell, Mrs. Hughes was concerned on a moral issue rather than on a economic or political issue, particularly with regard

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for us, saying one time that he was in his office working at seven or eight o'clock on a Sunday night, and the phone rang. Ciaccio said, "I knew that Marian was out for the night, so it couldn't be her," surprised that anyone would call then. He picked

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the United States. Now I doubt whether Johnson ever read [Karl] Haushofer, but I believe that he had an instinctive recognition of the validity of Haushofer s doctrine of the heartland, which was, in 1 effect, the Middle East. Are you familiar

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really wanted him to think about a little bit, I always tried to get it inserted into his night reading. He loved to wake up in the morning and have a lot of things there to read. But I wouldn't say that he 20 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

to our right. And a population of bats (laughter) and swallows from some surrounding buildings that flew around at night. It was an interesting possibility; it offered us more room than we had ever had before. Max Brooks was a very able and creative

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the Southern opposition to civil rights legislation in opposition to what a lot of people call "progress" and that was an obstacle. And he recognized those things. F: He knew it well. I know you can't read another man's mind altogether, but do you get

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, who was the first member of the Council appointed, and Paul Samuelson, who was a close adviser to President-Elect Kennedy, got together one night to discuss the third LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with their print shop, usually at night. [lid] go down with my staff. We would come into their print 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, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

Standard upon graduating from the University of Missouri. Here he served first as a reporter and then as a night editor of the San Angelo Morning Times, which the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

Johnson Library, and our focus will be on health legislation and activities during the Johnson Administration. Perhaps we could start with the President's health. Let me preface it by saying this: I read just this morning an article that the late Michael

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Well, I think by that time I understood its multifaceted aspects, because I had read a lot and I had talked to a lot of people. So I think I had a fairly clear

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

mind that he wasn't going to accept or negotiate anything less than a victory and that he would do whatever he could. Now, I tried to clear up this confusion in the paper edition of the book. M: Why, I haven't even seen the paper edition. I read

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Chalmers Roberts is a great guy, you know no matter how much he'd tell you this. I represented a piece of the Washington Post to him and the Washington Post is read by everybody who counts in Washington every morning. [If] we socked him with an unfavorable

Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

and some of us wandered through the streets in Jacksonville during the three days of the riots. I just wandered through. I never got bothered in the least at any time, day or night, and tried to keep things cool and get some of the leaders to understand

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that had been submitted. As a matter of fact, I disagreed with many a thing that Jim Cain said about what should be done in Vietnam. I read the report in November of '63. done this earlier--I think it may have been the spring of '63. Jim had

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

not as prominent as many of the jobs you read about going to so-and-so. Mc Was this at Mr. Johnson's direction? M: I'm sure it was, although I think Mr. Macy came in under Mr. Kennedy. But certainly President Johnson not only continued his employment, but made