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Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and just About all it was was a ni ce 1uncheon wi th We were discussing manpower things, and I'm sure he had read LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

, 1968 INTERVIEWEE: DR. LOGAN WILSON INTERVIEHER: DAVID G. McCOMB PLACE: Dr. Wilson's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 t1: Dr. Wilson, first of all, let's say something about your background. r have some data on it. I can read through

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the war for a year, and read the Dallas News, which was in those days a rather jingoistic newspaper, which announced with regularity that Texans were bombing Berlin and invading Italy and so on. Anyway, we came down here never supposing that the first

Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

hands, and the first thing he said was, "Did you read the Pearson article?" And Drew Pearson had printed a story a few days before that John Carver, who was then in this job and who was slotted to take my job in the Federal Power Commission, that he

Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

for the conduct of non-foreign affairs, really. It was If you look D W the Constitution and you really read the contemporary writings and opininns that are expressed, you can see that one of the great anxieties of the Founding Fathers, so-called, Z D V

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

-- 4 communication. After all if this took three minutes of somebody’s time to quickly read a memorandum, at least he had the benefit of your thoughts, what you thought was important, what was coming up. He then could react, could give direction

Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

be more frightened of the evil one knows than the evil one knows not of?" M: Hard to believe he had been reading Hamlet. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Taught school in Grand Saline for six years. and I worked at the sa~t Raised My wife plant at night to pay for our first home. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

and listen all night to them--but these were mainly business people. There was always a big clamor for keeping the cost of government down. B: So it was controversial to have a pension system for old folks? M: Well, yes, because the only thing they'd had

Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that that would have been the ideal one. I was reading an interview last night with Dr. Burns, asking him if government was too big, and he said, well, government was so big that you couldn't evaluate it, and "If you can't evaluate it, you don't know whether it's

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Schultze was concerned about the numbers. B: That's right, that's right. But he was giving us the--he was not giving us the right--he expressed his concern. I read that memo. He was expressing his concern, but he still was not giving us for planning

Oral history transcript, Jessie (Mrs.) Hatcher, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

that Lyndon came The night that he came, why the biggest storm 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://discoverlbj.org

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[reading an outline], "the senators came out of the chamber laughing." No, I don't remember. G: Now McCarthy introduced a resolution that would have tied Eisenhower's hands at Geneva. M: That's right. Yes, I remember that the Republicans knew it had

Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the circulars if they would read them. Of course,they got a great deal of attention from that . M: So the helicopter was an effective means of getting attention? B: Very , very effective--it was spectacular . He made stops all over ; I guess he made four

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

knowledge and Stevenson's knowledge and you sort of bred them together, if maybe those two great minds might get us out of this abyss that we're in now. Because I recently read in the Wall Street Journal where that if you continue to spend--I'm talking

Oral history transcript, Howard Bertsch, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

under it . We know in our hearts what the Congress intended to authorize us to do and what they intended to prohibit us from doing . We read the legislative history of any piece of legislation . We know what the committees of Congress and the Congress

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that we get credit for giving them the advance push on it and the advance notification so that they can make an announcement or leak something if they want too. But, on the other hand, the way I read this--the way I would assume this--I'd call them

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Department about seve n or eigh t o'clo ck that night and put it all do.wn • . He had said to me, "I don 't want this memorandum to go through anybody else . This is a M: S: memorandum that must come from you dire ctly to me. Not even through

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

do then? T: Flew back to Washington. F: How soon did you see the Senator? T: I think the day I got back to Washington, that night or the next morning I went to the hospital and Dr. [James] Cain took me in just for a He was still under the oxygen

Oral history transcript, Sam Low, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, if he could inherit the governorship . And so he is the man who did most of the work in getting the election of W . Lee O'Daniel to the Senate, to make way for him . Now that came about in this way . When we went to bed on Saturday night, we were, I

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that he ought to call in Negro leadership the next day. And after several memos and a couple of phone conversations, around ten o'clock at night, he agreed to do that. 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

also set great store--he thought I had influence over the arms of the government in my articles in the paper. Johnson as he did. He was anxious for me to know and appreciate So he invited me out to dinner one night for the purpose of meeting Johnson

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and the biggest lawyer need we had in those days was to protect the stations against claims for libel or slander, as you might categorize it, by reading and approving all political speeches. So in political season it was virtually a full-time job to represent

Oral history transcript, Donald S. Thomas, interview 4 (IV), 3/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

VEs to get them in there. Dr. Stanton had been questioned about UHF--this was before we got on the scene--and he had testified at that hearing. testimony but I've heard this. I haven't read his I am convinced it's true in my own mind, but I haven't

Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

between our two bureaus on this issue, but it is subject to interpretation. Men of good will sometimes don't always read the language the same way, so when you have a shift of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

might be located where they were getting a little interference from a steel girder or something like that. But the answer is, yes, it was operational, but not to the degree they wanted and they were to correct the problem that night and, as I said

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 23 (XXIII), 8/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXIII -- 2 R: Oh, sure. It's rather strange. I've got to recapitulate the background here. One night Dave Broder, the Washington reporter for the Dallas News--I think you have

Oral history transcript, Albert W. Brisbin, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

work projects for the college, but also were getting an opportunity to learn to read and write and some of the other things that are such an important part of developing any working skills, which was what we were trying to [accomplish] . G: What sort

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that causes you to know that it influenced him? C: He told some of us who were in the White House, as I recall it on a social occasion, the night he moved in the Dominican Republic situation; he made references to the need for doing this sort of thing to keep

Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a call late at night at the hotel where I was staying, saying that the president wanted to see me the next day at five p.m. 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

negotiations with the Vietnamese bombing halt of thi s month? C: I think Tom Johnson and I attended every meeting. I may not h ave a ttend e d one simply b e caus e I was doing something else, and Torn sat in on it and I read hi s notes l ater . The bomb

Oral history transcript, Val M. Keating, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Haley is still at it, a critical newspaper _~rticle. I just saw one the other day. G: Did you get to know Mrs. Johnson during this period? K: No, only at dinner that one night. was one of my assistants. Lyndon invited Francoise Black, who I

Oral history transcript, Albert C. Harzke, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. of you. It sounds like there were a number Roy Swift was the Star reporter. ) Harvey Yoe was the fresh- man--it reads like the-H: Yes, it worked. (Laughter) G: How did you organize this election? Did you sit down and decide on your ovln slate

Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of Hinojosa said, precisely on the occasion of the visit of President Kennedy to Mexico, "You remember that night that we went out and took two girls? One of them, the one that was with me," said Mr. Hinojosa, "was Miss Jacqueline Bouvier." I did not remember

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the day that he made the speech, a Sunday night. I had not see him for a week before that speech, hadn't heard him say or talk about anything. But since I had all during the period that I had been there come to have more and more the feeling that he

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 8 (VIII), 11/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

much respect for his judgment in some important fields. At the same time, he could read the polls and he knew how people back in Texas felt about Eisenhower--Eisenhower had carried it handsomely both times--and he took great pains not to seem captious

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to it later, regarding the White House role, mine specifically, was that I was totally accepted by Mike Mansfield. Whatever hour of the day or night I was in or out of his office, Mike was available and we'd chat, even if it was just discussing the weather

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 10 (X), 10/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson, Mr. Symington, and me--they included me in everything--credit for it. It was a nice night. G: Had Mr. Johnson played a role in getting Sheppard Air Force Base? J: Yes--in getting it originally? G: Yes. J: No. G: It had been there before

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

called and asked me to return his call, he did not tell my wife what it was about. He said no matter what time I got in, twelve, or one or two--it was night, midnight, early hours of the morning. I returned the call and did not reach him, but I was kept

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

onthe-record basis, or in departing from text as he did in the Sunday night speech, his explanations were always more graphic, and his drawing of the cartoon of his reasoning provided these open-ends of just how many heads were rolling in the streets