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Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 3 (III), 7/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a hundred stories like that of kids who came into the Job Corps who couldn't read anything. We found out they couldn't read because they couldn't see; they'd never had glasses on their heads. So they didn't know what the teacher was talking about or writing
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , I'll put her on the list. Mc: In fact, she spent fantastic parts of time with the President including up at Camp David one night. They started talking about midnight and got through at 8:00 a.m. in the morning • .. M:. .. Just with the press
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy :: IX :_ 23 fund~ this would mean to the Texas school Of course, when I read the story what I
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • is your judgment of its validity and the results of its conclusio ns? J: I have studied it very carefully , and I've read most of the books that have been written--M ark Lane and various others on the subject. There's a great deai of,. Just irrespons
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the state and readily identifiable with him as our oil capital of the Rockies as we call it, you know. The now President running in 1964 also took it upon himself to meet privately with the oil boys in Casper, and he really got rough with them. He read
Oral history transcript, Conrad L. Wirth, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • something for him, but he didn't read the doggoned thing. He held his paper in his hand and just said what he thought and felt. We had it tape recorded, and we printed it. He talked about his philosophy of conservation and beautification and people
Oral history transcript, James Roosevelt, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because Perkins, I'm sure, was always looking forward to the day when he would become chairman of the committee, while Landrum was more interested in going to Ways and Means. G: I have two readings of Perkins. One is that he was not as sophisticated
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , with its overall mandate of what is wrong with our society and what can we do to fix it, was talking in exceedingly general terms. This was a nuts-and-bolts chart of how to attack this particular problem. B: Let me read this into the record
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HEBERT - - I - - 8 in d i a r y form and reading i t now, i t ' s almost e e r i e , the p r e d i c t i o n s t h a t we had. But on the t r i p , I t e l l in th e opening day of the d i a r y - - w r i
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • He l i ke to write i n on t h e cards things he want e d t o say , and on ly he could read h is h an dwriting in some instance s . F: Th a t t r i p that he went down to Harold Holt's funeral and t h e n just kept on g oi n g. Was tha t
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEWEE: BENJAMIN READ
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  • Read, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Huger), 1925-
  • Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEWEE: Benjamin Read (Tape 2
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  • Read, Benjamin H. (Benjamin Huger), 1925-
  • Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 7 (VII), 9/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been over there. He looked him up, but I'm not sure about that. He was in Germany. Maybe he hadn't quite been released yet. Oh, and Roosevelt died. G: He was in Washington when that happened, LBJ was. R: Well, he was back. I'm reading the next
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • knows what the hell the White House thought. I've read their correspondence now, and the main thing I see is confusion. And then the second thing I deviate from the broadcast is, although I think that technically there was a conspiracy, the word has
Oral history transcript, H.M. Greene, interview 1 (I), 1/21/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • think first they're going to change my procedure. I never liked to copy off a lot of stuff and read it in class -- my way was mixed, but with a class like that -- it was conducted like a And all I did was throw out a challenge, you know, let graduate
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • talking and I asked you to contact her. You can call her through 755-7535. One additional sidelight, and then I'll identify the speeches. There was a policy within HUD that speeches were read by Jay Janis, who was the executive assistant to the Secretary
Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be such a great idea--a chance to float some proposals and sample the kind of political reactions he might expect from the conference itself. G: One has the impression from reading some of these memoranda that the White House support initially
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • committees. G: The quotation that we've often heard, paraphrased badly, was something to the effect that "while the liberals were reading Plato or Shakespeare I was reading the rules of the Senate." Did he read the rules of the Senate? I mean, did he
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasker -- III -- 15 CL: Oh, I hadn't heard that. ML: How did you know him? CL: I've just read so much about him and read what he testified
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • is what I've just recited. G: Sure. Let me see just a moment. We have plenty of time. (Interruption) T: I am reading from the conference call publication, which I just referred to, in which I quote as follows from President Johnson's call
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • thing about the Vietnamese communists is that if there is an easy way to get up a mountain and a hard way, they'll always go the hard way and they always expect to go twice as fast as anybody else. hopes and expectations are enormous. Their We read
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • also made a trip to Vietnam in 1961. Did you ever have occasion to talk to him about his trip there? J: No, I didn't. I never had a chance to talk to him about that trip. have read about it, of course, and read reports on it. I But I haven't
Oral history transcript, Elmer Graham, interview 1 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • took public speaking of course. what influence it had on him. He liked I don't knoH if I can say I just don't knoH actually hOH much that did influence him. I: Was he a great reader? G: We read quite a bit during that year He were debating
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . B: Later used against him, and it was certainly the truth . said, At any rate he "Now look, let's focus on this, let's look hard at it, let's see what we can do better ." He read a very strong message--I've heard it described as a sort of riot
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • reporters and col urnni sts and so forth up t'Jhen they were crit; ca 1 of him, letting them know that he's been reading their articles and didn't like it. Did he ever do that with you? R: No, never had it happen. I had it happen with Kennedy. I doubt
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • -- 4 G: He really didn't know what it was all about. Basically, he read that memorandum and recognized that he needed an analytical person, a quantitative, analytical person in the department, somewhat different than the kind that we normally get from
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • got to give a story without much substance and satisfy these guys. Was there ever a problem with a leak, that you recall, during your tenure? J: There was a little trouble, and I don't remember what it was, and I don't know even if I read the record
Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Sr., interview 1 (I), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • road. I was ,Alabama, the youngest of her died shortly after I was born. seventh grade and I attended school only through read law whi We I was a switchman for the Southern Pacific Rai Later I left that job to become clerk to the Justice
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 K: Well, you might look up the citation that I read that day. I think that was what I thought about him then. M: Very good. K: He's got a copy of it, Brown's
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to Washington each day. In a certain sense of the word, they were messages to the President--not that he read them all, nor should he read them all. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by Cross and read Lucian's stuff and thought a bit about it in the context of my general work on the developing regions. And then when I came to write about policy, when I did The U.S. in the World Arena, which was finished in 1958 but published in 1960, I
Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that they could change the record around to keep the other guy from looking as bad as he did. However, many times if you'd go read the daily newspaper you'd see what actually transpired, because the reporter would have reported it the wav he hP~rd it. He used
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • half a second. I had a running gag with Califano. He said to me one day, "You're the only godd;'lmned· guy around here who doesn 1 t read the news ticker." I said, "Well, I'm not sure I'm the only guy but I agree, I don 1 t read it very much." He said
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to read it. And it was not that he was unlikely to read it because he didn't care to know, it was just that he had a lot of other things to do and there wasn't much he could do about most of what I was writing about. It was the development of civil rights
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview S-XIII, 1/23/1987, by Nancy Smith (Item)
  • Lady to highlight President Johnson's programs. J: Yes, I used them the best I could. We all used each other. S: I've read that for a long, long time before you became First Lady you did not like making speeches, you did not like campaigning. Did
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was unjustified. The President was angry when he called me, having read it on the ticker. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, B. F. "Tom" Donald, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • executive committee met in the tax collector's office in the courthouse or in the grand jury room. E. M. Brownlee was there. The county chairman called the meeting to order. The procedure was to read the returns: so many votes for LBJ; so many votes