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Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and a very capable person. And so I would talk to Warner and Holbrooke and another guy, named Peter Rosenblatt almost--well, in fact, I talked to them every night. G: To your knowledge, did Ambassador Komer talk to the President during this period? M

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

think this is where we, Russell and I, became very close, and I think part of it was because of a conversation we had one night about the whole strategy of this MacArthur thing. Because the accordian ended way back in Moscow, that was the real trouble

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

is somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000 men a year who now read at the fifth grade level or below and who, according to the experience of the first six months, can be raised two grade levels in reading ability in a matter of two or three weeks. This is rather

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 8 with him over the years, do you think? Did he hold that against Nixon, do you recall? J: I can't answer that substantively, because I know his affection for Helen remained. She was with us in the White House and spent the night with us once. I

Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

back the very next morning through his night reading. He seemed to me prodigious in his handling of any communi- cations I had with him. My command of the job that I was given was such that whoever the people were who were occasionally called upon

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

documents. There was one case of a proclamation which I will mention here--I think it should stay confidential for a while, but it illustrates awfully well a difficulty of White House operation which is inherent in the system. The night that Martin Luther

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, you know. And he knew all the little things that people did. I used to say he had his own private FBI. If you ever knew anybody, if you'd been out on a date, or if you'd had a drink, or if you'd attended a meeting, or you danced with a gal at a night

Oral history transcript, Abe Fortas, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

vividly because I had a terrible cold. I got a telephone call, as I remember, from Alvin Wirtz asking me to come over to a lawyers' meeting in a hotel at Fort Worth. I told him that I was busy taking depositions, so he arranged for me to come over at night

Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. We send over items for his evening reading all the time so that when he has to make a decision, he has got the background for it. And the mechanism is also effective from the point of view of getting decisions over there. M: They do an adequate job

Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

this is what they thought. B: When was this? D: It was the morning following the nomination. ~f:er Was this that night after--? Then, later, right this 22e=i2g broke up, came Southern leaders like Terry Sanford, Luther Beuford ~ociges, Ellin~tQ

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, in effect, I have greatly impaired our position there--very sweeping concessions, which we did not make. F: What kind of concessions? M: My memory is not that good. I'd have to go back and read the messages back and forth, and once you've done that you

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to put the information together for a campaign book and now that effort would have to find another source. I remember that Califano had a bottle of Cutty Sark, and I think they celebrated that night by finishing off whatever was left because that effort

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

issues .. · Walter · ularly on foreign . . . . George was still a formidabl~ guy. ~. .. He was. getti.ng a little old, but •.•• I sat there and witnessed Johnson, with just a quick .reading -------···· of a memo, talk to the substance

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

speeches or positions for the afternoon or in meeting with the representatives of other countries. And then, at six there would be a cocktail party, which would mainly be a lobbying session. And two nights a week at 8:30, there were evening sessions

Oral history transcript, Victor Jaeggli, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that particular park, and it got finished. I mean, it was done in a hurry. We put fifty or a hundred more kids on it, and wham! It got done. G: I think I read a memo to the effect that they had four hundred extra people on it from the highway department. J

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Clark Clifford -- Interview VI -- 8 was a worse riot. F: Were you involved in those at all? C: No, but the fact is that when Detroit came up I was in Southeast Asia on a trip and read about it out

Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Wiggins was sitting there, and I said, "Well, Mr. President, I'm a little bit surprised to see that you form your impressions by reading certain editorials that appear in the local press, in the Washington Post," I think I said, because I--oh, brother, I

Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Johnson's TV station, he and I were out at the airport catching a plane when we heard it on the radio. F: What did you do then? K: Nothing. Boatner, he was covering it, and he was still there, so he covered it. No, Mr. Rayburn had indicated the night

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

campaign going and the night before election we caucused and decided we were behind twenty votes and decided to throw in the sponge--all but Lyndon. He said, "0h, no, if twenty votes is all we need, we've got from now until eight o'clock in the morni ng

Oral history transcript, James A. Elkins, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

addressed yourself. M: Were you worried that Johnson might lose that election? E: No, I never was really worried. anyway. But you worry until something's done I don't think I lay awake many nights thinking he was going to lose it or feeling that he

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Johnson. t"

Oral history transcript, Ernest W. McFarland, interview 1 (I), 2/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

,., certain people are going to vote. r'd like to say this. The Lyndon Johnson that I knew' back in those days, when I read some of the nmvspaper accounts of Lyndon Johnson, r wouldn't have hardly recognized him because really and truly, Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in late one night, crawled into bed and my wife said, "Roy, is that you?" So I decided I better get another job. Then when Barry Goldwater ran for the presidency in 1964, Javits became ranking minority member of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Bundy gave us a copy of the speech to read beforehand. Of course, we were pleased, because the tone of the speech was the first break, first indication, of a presidential willingness to negotiate a settlement. We were very pleased. Then we went

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 2 (II), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

energy. What it did is transform the off-peak energy which was of little value into peak energy which is of high value. You did that by using the off-peak energy during off-peak hours, during the night to pump water to the top of the hill where

Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of Congress. The Supreme Court was there , and it was a great reception . M: Somewher~ in this, on your return from Apollo VIII, I read that Johnson called the wives, too . You didn't know anything about that? L: No, but I heard about it. He did

Oral history transcript, Cecille Harrison Marshall, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was the night we place~ ended up at the wrest ling matches. to buy a dress. That ~ s the time I skipped a class I skipped a test to buy a dress, something Bird never would have done. But I bought a new evening dress for the occasion and I remember

Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 20. in and the manager of the Federal Reserve started reading the telegram and then he folded it up and said, "Why, Mr. Gideon, this telegram is collect. sends a collect telegram

Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the VC are in terrible shape." We could read the communications along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and it was perfectly obvious that they were having one terrible time, because people from South Vietnam were going to go back up that trail come hell or high

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

thought I was running a very good race until we had a dinner party on election night to celebrate the election which we knew would be successful, and many of our close friends came. Along about 7:30, when the returns started coming in, I was out

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 and did a radio broadcast once a week on Sunday night. pieces and lectures and one thing and another. I also did magazine I now look back in awe and unbelief on the amount

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. commanding personality. I He was obviously a very I remember the surprise that I felt that he also had so much charm which I hadn't read about or hadn't realized. P: You are a very close friend with the Vice President, Mr. Humphrey. A: Yes, I've known

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

time and Nash went out reluctantly. At least then we did have a new opportunity for leadership and much of this culminated in the message that President Johnson delivered in the winter of 1968. This is the kind of thing you can't come up with over night

Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)

Kennedy? G: Where they launch the missiles? L: Yes, at Cape Kennedy they launch the missiles. But there is a small town about thirty miles from that where we stayed the night. Orlando. Orlando, Florida. From Orlando, Florida, then we went to Cape

Oral history transcript, Christopher Weeks, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Yarmolinsky ltJaS in the hospital. I remember because we were going back for a second round of hearings before the House Education and Labor Committee, and he had just flown in the previous night from Belgium I think. to receive an award of some sort. I

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

-- F: It must have kept you on the move. C: It sure did. F: You didn't spend all your time in San Salvador? C: No, no, no. I was a man that spent most of my time in the country reading, very little in 15 LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lampman -- I -- 2 journalists and speech writers. People began to think about the agenda for the 1960s. One of the people who read it was Walter Heller, whom I had known before

Oral history transcript, Edward P. Cliff, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

lunch in one of our National Forest Recreation F: A picnic lunch? C: Yes, a picniC lunch. of that country. Timberline Lodge. Areas~- We had baked salmon and other food that's typical Again, a beautiful day, and we stayed that night at The plan