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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a picnic--1 mean a barbecue--and I was invited. But I didn't go at that time. I had illness in the family, and I didn't go, and I did not see him any more after that. G: I see. Well, Mrs. Johnson, this has been most informative. J: Well, I hope. G

Oral history transcript, Anthony Partridge, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was the deputy. Steve had hoped to be the general counsel. That was a disappointment, but . . . I was the assistant general counsel for the Community Action Program. The first assistant counsel for Job Corps LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, George McArthur, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

as you're young and able to do it, a deadline when you're working for a wire service doesn't mean anything in the world to you. You know you've got to have it in at one p.m., so you go and do something, and you hope it's right, and you do everything that you

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

are being badly served by the absence of a certain kind of military hardware, or by our strategic plans or whatever, in the hope that you'll get them changed that way. We just had a great example with [Caspar] Weinberger's letter to Reagan. The Pentagon

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

kind of trying to press for whatever- M: Well, I was hoping to get an agreement from him. Finally I just gave up on it and went ahead. But I couldn't get anything out of him. G: Really? 10 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

from ineptness. All right. A crackerjack, first-rate CAP team could not hope to get into the political and--the political fabric of a hamlet or a village to the degree that a good RD team could, because the RD team was--first of all it was all

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I think the convention will tear itself apart . Some of these Kennedy-pledged delegations will move and we hope they will move to Lyndon Johnson . If they do, I know that Senator Johnson has a tremendous respect for you ." F : You had had

Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

reactions . The first was to simply say that the speech said nothing new, namely, to kind of try to co-opt the new elements into the old in the hope of smothering the new . And the second one was that of shock and dismay . As some fellow once said : before

Oral history transcript, Dorothy V. Bush, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

a very large party. We thought it would be nice if we could invite the Vice President and Mrs. Johnson. She accepted right away, and said that the Vice President hoped that he might be able to join us, but that he wouldn't be certain until the late

Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson like? Did you know her very well? C: Rebekah Baines Johnson was a princess, she was a wonderful lady. All that Lyndon could ever have hoped to be, why, he owes to his mother. She was a wonderful person, yes. G: What was she like? c: Very

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 2 (II), 11/18/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

after the Detroit situation, the Attorney General wrote each of the fifty governors indicating the bases for the request for federal troops and the procedure that would be used in requesting them. that this has had some educational value. We hope

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

conservation and what he felt his Administration had done, what he hoped the country would do, and he said, "We haven't finished yet," he made this reference. Well, this let the cat out of the bag. I had the Saylers and Jacksons and others sworn to secrecy. F

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

with with is overseas. have any impact LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] M: So your only hope is negotiation K: So there's their really cities not much we've

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson said he hoped every businessman would reduce prices, and that labor should keep their wage increases within productivity. He said the best thing to do would be to freeze profits and limit wages to the productivity increase. Saunders said

Oral history transcript, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wrath? G: I don't recall anything specifically relating to Senator Johnson. 1 do recall the President was intensely disappointed at the performance of the Senate in this matter and had hoped for, not only for more support but had hoped for a different

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with the ultimate hope of bringing peace would be diminished, if not completely wiped out, by any kind of a strong demonstration the communists were able to muster against the President's visit there. So that's why it was not publicly explained. And we had very many

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for you to make that decision." And he hesitated and thought, and I was hoping I'd get the Philippine Islands. And he said, "Well, you're supposed to be in Bolivia right now." His memory was [going] click. He said, "You're long overdue in Bolivia. We've

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Frankel -- I -- 17 jobs. Johnson wanted the 1eg:lslation through. 'vould suppo:r-t it. He hoped Fulbright In fact, the International Education Act I asked

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 2 (II), 5/7/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh WHEELER -- II -- 21 describe the President to you? W: Well, yes. M:. I hope we didn't cover this before, but if we did, I'd rather do it again than not. W: I may have

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to me to make And I always kept hoping he would leak something, but he never did. F: Stay in touch. W: I'm trying to recall what these circumstances were. was working for him then. Liz Carpenter And he began to tell me, in typically overwhelming

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that it's going to be too dangerous for the two of us to take off together because of those high-tension wires,"--or whatever the reason might be--"so if you all stay here with me until we get through, we'll all wait and hope that the good Lord sees that Joe

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

." Then we went to another room. There was a suite of rooms: a sitting room, a bedroom, bath, telephone and TV, and he looked around and said, "I think that's better. I hope you will be comfortable." "Oh, wait a minute," he said, "let me see, you might

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Margaret (Mrs. Jack) Carter, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and on the state and national committees, has also to maintain an organization. t4r. Rayburn had grown up without the necessity for that, and Johnson hoped that he could become powerful without the necessity of that. They simply did not want any organized

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and the good ideas that may have been developed in one place have been, you know, lost sight of and not available for use in other areas. Well, that won't be the case with our programs, I hope. Now, coming back to the per cent that needed extra help

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, to try to appeal to the sensibilities of the rioters, as well as you could, in the hope that you wouldn't have to use force and wouldn't have to do anything. But I think he was ready to put them down. I don't think he was going to let it destroy

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 11 (XI), 4/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

also. Let me ask you to recall everything you can about the Russell candi dacy and Russell's hopes. J: I'll get 1952 and 1956 mixed up because they were very much the same. 1956 was a lot better. Both John and I took leaves of absence to work

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 1/24/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ran editorials suggesting that he shouldn't have opposition. Of course, he had just gone through an election the year before. Do you know whose idea that was originally to promote that? J: I'm sure that all of Lyndon's close friends hoped

Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

these veterans that had been called up? What was the normal [inaudible]-- D: The principal thing we did was to try to hold out some hope that the legislation that was then being shaped by Senator Johnson's subcommittee was going to try to cure some

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

by then. But that is all right because--well, we didn't consider it. I talked to other people in Saigon about this kind of rebirth that we got from Mr. Diem, but we always hoped that somehow he would succeed in stabilizing the situation because the situation

Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and government is becoming larger, we just can't see too far ahead. And I think we have to operate on a day-to-day or year-to-year basis and hope that everything will come out all right. They talk about the young people of today being worse than they used

Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

that's the part of the story I remember. I hope it was correct because that's what I seem to remember. B: Yes, that's what she said. She said that several years later when he was a congressman, he paid it back to her and had a birthday cake and she cut

Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. We had just general paperwork. Also, in accordance with the request of the then-Senator Johnson's mother, she had always hoped that the Senator's private papers would be put together and put into a permanent library. I believe this was one

Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

, whatever, self-determination a chance. And he was deeply dedicated to the idea. With that in mind, with the advice that he got and with his real belief that the United States had to continue to be a leader in the world and in the hope for peace, according

Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

interesting. J: Well, I'm very glad to tell it. I hope that it throws a. little light on what a wonderful young man and lifesaver he was as a young person. P: Of course, you know these early times are not as well documented, and so it's very interesting