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Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • recall, were quoted as being confident of the outcome on the basis of their private, unofficial canvass. The Stevenson people had some hopes that they still might win, but everyone LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • want to read it. "And I read it with great interest, and I hope I'll sometimes be as producti ve as you are. M: I think he's keeping busy down in Texas. people down there. II He has got quite a group of I certainly don't want to stop your
Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . But it was a surprise and it was, frankly, at that time, a disappointment. was then. M: But maybe I'm not as callow now as I I hope not. Did you go on to support the Democratic ticket of Kennedy and Johnson in 1960? E: Yes. Went on and supported the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • that I did think of . I remember one thing that greatly impressed me way back there -- we were poor and I was hoping to find some way I could make some money . I thought was his peculiar attitude toward money . money for his own sake . I remember what
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • leader? T: Well, I remember when we had bills up involving labor unions. hoping that he would take a stand, stand up to the unions. did not, and I didn't like that stand he took. I was But he He was evidently get- . ting ready to run for president
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • responsibility for law enforcement. There's so much you can do in the area of consolidation of local law enforcement, however, that I hope the states in their plans will aim in that direction. You have 40 thousand difference police agencies in this country. B
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 3 c (III), 12/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not many such criticisms in Washington or Baltimore in April of '68. Is it hoped that the kind of activity that the new Safe Streets Act is designed to encourage will perhaps help this sort of situation? V: Can't help but help. If you have more policemen
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in mind. And as the economic history of 1962 proceeded and it became clearer that the economy was not behaving as strongly and vigorously as we hoped it would, the emphasis steadily shifted over toward the goal of a substantial tax cut for economic
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • said, I taught myself a lesson to never let anybody get to be an indispensable person in an operation of that type. So the whole report project was a great teaching vehicle for me, one of those experiences that come once in a lifetime and yet you hope
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • grateful. His remarks were to the effect that the Federal Maritime Commission had done a good job for the trade and commerce of the country and that he hoped that we would continue to do so. The remarks were in such a tenor LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 time and one that of course was crucial to what we had hoped to do. F: Were you
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and a profound respect. I would like to include in my informal statement here one of my hopes that somewhere along in history that Walter Jenkins, the stigma that has been attached to him will somehow be removed, because I think that I'm a realist. I'm
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , or at what point he would have acted differently in the Vietnam War. I personally am not ready to return to isolationism and I hope that our nation will retain its position of world leadership. I'm not sure what the scope of our commitments
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • had a better option, in a sense, than Nixon has today. In a way, and Nixon is going to take the option of withdrawal, obviously. I don't think he'll get out on an easy negotiation. Let's hope he does, but I think he will just have to opt
Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ' secretary, in hopes of seeing Jenkins when Mr. Johnson arrived in the office. my first introduction to the Senator. meeting in this respect: ~Jr. I believe that was But I think it was an important right off the bat he invited me to come in and sit down
Oral history transcript, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with high hopes, good press, made some very noticeable impact; and yet, in public esteem, in congressional esteem, kind of dropped off. And still, at the time when the Nixon Administration came in, in a sense with a mandate to discontinue it, LBJ
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • than the Johnson Administration was. I B: think we're just that close to something resembling peace. It is to be hoped. Did Mr. Johnson ever calIon you for advice or help in his domestic matters, his domestic legislative program? L: No, I don't
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • . But in the meantime, we were waiting and hoping that we would be seated. There was Mayor Tom Miller of Austin, and there was Creekmore Fath, and Fagan Dickson out of Austin, and Walter Hall of Dickinson--he was a very prominent banker, and still is, and a very dear
Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 B: Mrs. M: The last thing I want to say is Martin~ thank you very much. I hope I haven't kept you overtime. that~ but for John Gardner
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the table and hope that it goes by. at the time. I was inclined to speak out myself. I thought it was wrong The whole thing, you know, was developed by these two fellows that ran this Rampart Magazine up here who were inclined to produce the sensational
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and confidence which permitted us to operate effectively and I hope efficiently. P: What are the problems between FAA and the Air Force regarding air traffic rules? M: I think that is a good question, and the easiest one you have raised for me to answer. years
Oral history transcript, Nell Colgin Miller, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • granddaughter is an achiever. There are just achievers in this world, and there are some that don't achieve and don't really care. I didn't care to achieve. I could have, if I cared to. G: Did she ever talk about her hopes for a profession? M: No. G
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --that are experts in the field of legislation. I.t's an easy thing to put a bill in the hopper and hope that it becomes law'~ but there are a lot of questions about constitutionality and so forth that have to be resolved before the bill could be considered
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the only one who apparently was going to be out of pocket when the time for a vote came. But Johnson got them there somehow. Of course, the Republicans had hoped to make a real political issue out of that because [Homer] Capehart himself
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • suggestive, though no people remember . that the war is People remember lost, or that it less or watch it on a powerful, than as a kind of flat announcement there's no hope or something . He didn't say that . G: How do you account for that? So
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't know," but I told him what had happened to me. I had gone down there and talked to Felix McKnight and what Felix had told me. And being the wise old fox he was, he [Rayburn] said, "Well, I hope Jack Kennedy's not trying to talk Lyndon into going
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --while he went in and i talked to Tom Miller. The best I think he even hoped for then or accomplished later was to kind of soften up Tom Miller to where he wouldn't fight him so viciously. G: Did Edgar Perry support you in that 1937 race? W: What'd
Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and shake their hands, and say, "I'm Lyndon Johnson, and I want to be your senator, and I hope you'll vote for me," and some of the people would come up. They were his supporters. The first blush of activity was the people who certainly were for him
Oral history transcript, James P. Nash, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --I'm not sure about Pennsylvania. We were next in number of delegates, you know, so we were important. We met with him and Sam Rayburn. They were promoting him to be president, with the possible hope that he might be vice president. Of course, we voted
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to build a school and education system and doing things for the people, but there had been so much military action, and people were killed. They'd point to houses that had been bombed out, and, of course, I would be hoping that they would blame the VC
Oral history transcript, Nelson M. Bortz, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Harvard . So I elected to teach and acquire that experience, which was for one year, and then I continued some graduate work and primarily developed what I hoped would be my doctor's thesis on the Railway Labor Act . But then I again had an opportunity
Oral history transcript, George G. (Admiral) Burkley, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And by that, I mean that sometimes I have waited to see him longer than I might hope to, but it has always been because he was engaged with other, possibly more important, activities, because my contacts with him have been--with the exception of the cold
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : For instance, we've just gotten in Greenville, as an exaInple, a new industry--300 new and damned well-paying jobs are cOIning in. You know, people who get decent jobs don't stay rednecks for very long. That's the hope of the South, of course. B
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • position. Then I left. Marty Hauan stayed there, awaiting some word, hoping that somebody would tell him that the Vice President was going to take over this machinery that he had set up. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Actually, we've covered a lot of the Senate material, but I hope you'll give me another opportunity to talk to you about the later years. C: Why, sure. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview IJ LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 24 C: The basic problem was how one was able to separate the signals from static on both sides, and it was hoped
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • his Cabinet members--I think did quite well. This is a practice which is growing in recent years, and I hope it continues to do so. I think it's important and valuable. And if the legislature is not briefed, there's going to be more and more
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • later." And he said, I I hope that it can be arranged ''Well, that's all right. I just knew you wanted to go and thought this might be a good time." And so then almost as soon as I hung up the receiver, I began to feel that I had made a mistake
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • The figures were absolutely wrong. There's no question They were underestimated about 12 to 15 billion spending, and I hope that we were reasonable enough men that had we known the right figures, we would have taken a different course of action. Because