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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 5 (V), 5/10/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

no-- R: Memory. G: --particular recollection of and we'll just go on. First, the Austin public housing project that I understand was one of the first housing projects in the country to be announced. R: I've read that somewhere. I don't remember

Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. If If it is addressed to a member of the staff, it is not opened, it is sent directly to that member of that staff. It is then analyzed. There is a crew of mail analysts who read the incoming letter, and I'll distinguish this from telegrams, for content and send

Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)

and very acute and responsive, and all the things that I've read about later and learned later about the kind of person he was and so forth, they weren't obvious or evident in any of the contacts. I didn't have those feelings at the time. Whatever I have

Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

things kind of came together and had different meaning as a resul t of reading it. I thi nk it was a very important contri- buti,on. G: Did you ever talk to President Kennedy about the poverty program, or what should be done? LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

think of and read and talk to and interpret some of what black thought is, but it's a disservice to your principal if he's president of the United States. not to let him get firsthand [opinions]. F: But it still filters through you? A: Exactly

Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in, and the integrationists were afraid the separationists would take over, and they made certain accommodations, but not too many. You may ask me why did it happen. I would say it was predictable if you'd read history, but neither Berl, nor I, nor Harry knew enough history

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 2 (II), 3/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

just reading the bill, it didn't suggest any more emphasis there than on any other part of it. Although if you read it closely, clearly the implications were quite broader than some of the other programs. G: I'd like to turn if I.can to, again

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

be available through Mr. Harry Selden at the Office of Education. M: Let's read this onto the tape then. This oral history project that you have dictated for--are these tapes going to be in the Lyndon Johnson Library? H: That was my understanding when I

Oral history transcript, Henry Hirshberg, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

, just from what you currently read now? H: Well, changes from the time that he was a handsome young fellow with great probable prospects getting somewhere some day. for the better. Changes, not necessarily I would think that the impatience

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, transmitted around the various Cabinet offices, but these were very stilted and I didn't learn a great deal from reading the other Cabinet officers reports, and I doubt seriously that they learned much from reading mine . I had a feeling all the way through

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

line waiting for R-and-R in Katmandu. So it was always full, whether I sent it up for her or whether I went up myself. It was a feature that added greatly to my satisfaction and situation. G: I recall reading that [Congressman] H. R. Gross, who

Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

roughly, the labor department was only rarely present and involved, and not involved in this mainstream of this strategic stuff. In the commerce department where I was then we really had no direct reading of the labor union--the trade union movement's

Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 2 (II), 7/18/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of people I had read about. G: You said that you were invited back to the White House. W: Yes, I was invited--oh, he took me on one boat ride. G: On the Sequoia? W: Yes. And I think that boat ride was for some African president. I don't

Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

thing if we had had the MLF. I've never read about a subject--I'm not--you know, never have I read such really low-grade attacks that were made on MLF--even people who should know better and shouldn't use words like "zealots" of the State Department

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McS: This interview is with L. H. Fountain, Democrat from the Second District of North Carolina. Mr. Fountain, you were in private law prac- tice in North Carolina and then a reading clerk

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of got the impression that it had been understood that there would not be anything like that. T: Well, sometimes a senator reads remarks into a statement that are not intended, you know. I had no criticism of Senator Thurmond. LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, have any struck you as being particularly meritorious or with substance, or are they all, to your mind, meretricious? N: You mean the criticisms? G: Yes, sir. N: Well, I hate to brand everything, including stuff I haven't read, as being wrong

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it, having what he felt was an independent evaluation. The SST is--I've just returned from Boeing now, getting an independent reading on the present status of the SST. As you know, Boeing has presented their proposal, January 15th, and the decision is due

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Presidential candidate, but I really never expected it, read Lyndon Johnson, I thought that he'd want someone that was really very close to him . As I I thought he'd want another Senator because Lyndon Johnson is essentially a legislator, and I felt that he

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

think that these did make an impression on those Bulgarians that were, you know, able to read and got the message. I think it had a pronounced effect, and I know, I rememeber that one of the things which I assured all the Bulgarians who did calIon me

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 6 (VI), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Foreign Relations Committee if they have someone. It's very seldom you ever read about luncheons in the secretary of the Senate's office. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

never had any problem with it. I don't have that language in front of me now, but it was so watered-down. And I looked at things more like a lawyer I suppose than a layman does, but as you read it, it really said nothing. It was like, "Anybody who smokes

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be intuitive judgment. He didn't seem to arrive at his conclusions from data garnered from recent issues of the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times. But somehow he knew; he seemed to have read widely and picked up much by ear. And it was often fun being

Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a regard for Mr. O'Daniel, but I don't know. He may have taken no position, I don't know. M: I have read in some of the books that there was a sort of a political struggle between your uncle and Sam Rayburn in 1940 in regard to the presidential race

Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

a regard for Mr. O'Daniel, but I don't know. He may have taken no position, I don't know. M: I have read in some of the books that there was a sort of a political struggle between your uncle and Sam Rayburn in 1940 in regard to the presidential race

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 3 (III), 8/13/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

was throwing his hands in the air, and that they were going to misinterpret it; and what he intended as a really very major gesture in the direction of peace would be read as a gesture as a result of weakness, and that it would lengthen the war and complicate

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

never could read it all. I believe if one is on a commission it is because of one's own knowledge of the situation. Sure you get data and statistics and information, but in the end, it's got to be your own conviction that has to be brought into play

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

paragraphs, I would have them, not mimeographed but--what do you call that process? It's a photooffset process--well, irrelevant. I would have them distributed to the press. Then he would read that in the middle of his speech. Otherwise, all of his speeches

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

. M: How did you do that? B: Well, I now forget what the circumstances were, in fact, but, any way, I got to him, and we talked about it, and he asked me for a memo which he, himself, read to the National Security Council . And I remember

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

choosing. Mrs. Johnson used the arbor to sit and read and visit with friends. In the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, and to carry out the motif of the Rose Garden, we planted some magnolias soulangeana, a flowering magnolia that is very beautifUl. These trees

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, but it was--and I'm not saying this in a derogatory sense-it was a pamphleteer job. study of the whole subject. He took a few stirring cases. Mine was a complete It had tremendous coverage in the newspapers and elsewhere and in the schools. And if you read it now

Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

." "Well," I said, "I've got a memo yellowing in the files and I'll send it down to you," so I sent him the memo and with astonishing speed Lyndon Johnson just took hold of it. Apparently both he and Lady Bird read the memo and just pressed the buttons

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 2 (II), 3/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 S: He sure does! Maybe too much so. That's not for me to say. But it \"ould really bother him, particularly when he would read or hear about, in the Community Action Programs, somebody stealing or somebody getting rich

Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 2 (II), 11/9/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: "Turn the war over to them." And I asked Mr. Bunker, "That doesn't seem to ring true with the--" he said, "Well, that's what he told me. were the only ones present." We But then when I read Westy's account and other accounts of that March 1967 Guam

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

goes, this is a real problem. M: What about the label? S: The FTC doesn't think it does any good, and I don't think so either. It's not in a place where people would read it. meaning. It doesn't have much I have a hunch that if that label had

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was pretty formidable, something to have to- F: He didn't want [the President] to read it in the paper, did he A! He surely didn't. And I don't remember now how much advance hint we had; but, in any case, the actual decision was a surprise

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on occasions when he would receive this advice from--? J: Oh, sure I was. And I read the memos. Hell, he got lots of advice indicating to him that he could win the war. G: In these discussions, was the tone one of optimism; did they feel that it would

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was lying on President Truman's desk out at the [Truman] Library in Independence, Missouri, and President Truman was giving me what he called the five-dollar tour. He saw my eyes just dropping to that letter open on his desk and he said, "Pick it up and read

Oral history transcript, Hyman Bookbinder, interview 2 (II), 5/19/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in recent years from general reading, where the same sponsorship is there. Now, I can't believe that administration after administration would approve programs that were not proving themselves. There, of course, the important thing is that with such a heavy