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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the Commission, amongst the commissioners, it's my recollection that it was unanimous that the safety function be transferred to the new Department of Transportation. M: I have read that Commissioner Charles Webb made some protest over the LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anyth ing about that? G: Well, I've read parts of it in your book, and I've talked to Esther Peterson about it. She indicates that you were a father of it many years before. D: Yes. You read the story of that. My attention was really drawn

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the way those things work, I see somebody reading the cable and then talking to Wiental, and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

interested areas in the department will discuss the idea . The Secretary is very good in responding to any request for a meeting, he's very good in reading any paper ; and papers that we send him get 'read, anytime we've asked for a meeting on the subject

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

for President Johnson. And I was stunned, because I was very young, and very new to Time, and I hadn’t told them anything. So the chief correspondent, Dick Thurman [?], called me in the hotel room, summoned me into his office, and said, “What’s this I read about

Oral history transcript, Sarah (Mrs. T. J. .) Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, Tony, in Santa Fe; and Lady Bird was the baby. M: From what I've read about their childhood, the boys, Tony Taylor and Tommy Taylor, were sent off to a school at a pretty early age. T: Quite right. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, John Ben Shepperd, interview 1 (I), 12/30/1968, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

title--was under some discussion as to how the monies had been acquired for the purchase of this property. Those of us who read the newspapers--this was what we saw, the difficulties that were involved; and then we read that you were appointed to--well

Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. Was that a basic Kennedy policy, you believe? 5: Yes. I have heard and read a great many reports that this was not a basic U.S. policy, that a number of zealots in the State Department had pushed this concept and Kennedy had sort of let them have some rope

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Millenson -- II -- 3 available there for you to read the sworn statements. And of course those registrations appear

Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

career plans of your own, of what you wanted to do along the line. B: Is that fair to say that? I suppose I should say that, because I guess every man I've ever read about in high public office always said that as a young boy he used to dream

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 47 (XLVII), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ever read them. I don't know whether he ever found about it or not; I can't remember. But I do remember we just sort of never had a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Yes. C: Okay, I talked to Heineman reporting to the President; he'd have to see him to talk him into it. [Reading document] God, typewriters, five dollars a month. Did we set the dates of this conference? [The] week of May 22, 1966

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, obviously, reading all of this finally after a couple of weeks of making sure all the bases had been touched, approves the guidelines, but then specifically asks that Cater tell Sparkman that he asked that the guidelines not be issued until after the primary

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

read a balance sheet in a first-rate manner. M: You'd say that she is a good business woman? 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Davis -- I -- 11 Anybody who reads American history knows that. But I think there can be no question on the part of anybody who honestly studies his career that he was motivated by the desire to serve and to do good. I heard him say

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh October 31, 1968 M: You were going to say something about President Johnson. K: Yes. I felt that when we talked last week that I hadn't been specific enough in reading into the record additional comments which

Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

courted them too much at the start, and then they fell out. I think he gave great weight to what was said in the eastern newspapers, the New York Times and Washington Post and Baltimore Sun. that are read in this town. Those are the papers I think he

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of that, and he said--actually he wasn't there but he had one of his assistants read his speech for hinr-"I am now in a position from certain statements I have made on national TV and to the press of looking as if I may lead the state into a secession again. All

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

understands. This is one of the criticisms I had of the Institute of Defense Analysis study. M: That's out now in public print. Somebody has come out with it. S: A staff man can write a good paper, but it certainly shouldn't be read by historians

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 5 (V), 3/14/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--and in this case some of the advocates [opponents?] of civil rights legislation--Russell Long--really read that signal right, because I think the time had come, I think because of World War II and [President Harry] Truman's order insofar as the armed forces. I

Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Cohen had originally worked on was essentially hospitalization. C: Right. G: It didn't include doctors-- C: Right. [According to] everything I've read, did read about and understand, it was an afterthought. I've read a little bit about it, I'm far

Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Benjamin Read, who was Rusk's executive secretary, in order to gain access to State Department materials. No one in the White House was called so far as I knew. I called people over there to tell them I was doing this and to ask for documents

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

way they liked. point system. There was a They had to go to school and learn reading, writing, and arithmetic. They learned from machines, so it didn't take teachers' time. They could take a teacher-given test anytime they wanted

Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)

and is presently I think ambassador to Norway under the name Austad, A-U-S-T-A-D. I wanted a witness. I showed Mr. Moyers the letter r was going to send off to my members. He read it and his comment, as I recall it, somewhat jocular, was, "0h, you don't want

Oral history transcript, William McChesney Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to override the president on or make a judgment apart from the president's. But there can't be the slightest question as to authority. Anybody who reads the record, not only of this but of others, will find that the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board has

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 2 (II), 12/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Any insights on that? W: I'm afraid that I'm going to have a hard time in keeping my recollections from becoming co-mingled with some of the things that I've read that others have said. But my best recollection about it, just thinking about

Oral history transcript, Janet Wofford Ingram, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

surprised to read that? I: Well, in a way. Yes. I'm not sure--my sister might have known it ahead of time. I'm not sure. B: Well, when did you first meet President Johnson? Was it during--was it after they married? I: Oh, yes. B: Okay. But during

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

read other people's speeches." it was then absolutely true. I said, "Well, This was pre-United Nations, but So I saw a young Jim Reston and Doug Cater LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and they'd flock around me and talk about the newsletter, and they read it, they appreciated it, and the young politicians also subscribed to it and many of them regarded it as Bill Proxmire did. One of my experiences--I went to a state convention

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

could read exactly the dates. I think much too much has been made of the issue. M: Certainly by Norman Cousins and Sevareid and everybody else. S: I think this is just nonsense. You have to look back at the situation as it existed at the time. If you

Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

policy in Vietnam. M: Regarding the Foreign Service generally--on which you should be one of the most expert observers around, having been in for so many years-generally the accounts which one reads now--the modern analysis of it-holds the State

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 A: Oh, he got very, very, very angry with me. M: With you? A: Oh, furious! M: You couldn't have· supported him more closely, just from reading your Absolutely furious

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. Winant. He was a very, very unusual man. Insofar as I have been able to read about Abraham Lincoln, he gave me always the impression of being a kind of second Abraham Lincoln--tall, gaunt, unable to be very articulate, driven by inner compulsions

Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and identified this with CORE tactics, and became involved in CORE. And then when the sit-ins began spontaneously the three freshmen in North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, who engaged in the first sit-in of this wave, had read a copy of a CORE pamphlet

Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

when they went off, and I was with them. We just adore those two girls. They were so fond of Hale as well as of me. Luci had Hale to read the epistle at her wedding, because he was one of her Roman Catholic friends. Her mother and daddy didn't have too

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

of criteria that you use--and I think one of your articles that I read stressed that point--RPP&E would then determine, I hesitate to use these words, success or failure or the setbacks and so on of programs. But what I'm getting at, if RPP&E does

Oral history transcript, Emma Guffy Miller, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Washington in the papers, we'll say-- because I consider the Washington Post an excellent paper, the New York Times and the Pittsburgh Gazette--Post Gazette is a very good paper too. However, if you read a Washington paper, you'll find out a good deal

Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the Warren Commission. M: Is that testimony, to your knowledge, complete as you would wish it to be? C: So far as I know it is. M: Do you have anything you want to add to it? C: No, not tha t I know of. M: Well, I want to read this into the tape so

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

February--I think February 22 from something else I read in the last couple of weeks--jerked it from the floor and said, "not being able to break a filibuster," and 14(b) was dead, so labor was very dicey, and-G: They really blamed the administration