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Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • proceeded to do that. of the legislative history. One of my assignments was to read all The Tidelands Act had been subject of a filibuster-B: That's a lot of material. P: I read thousands of pages. By and large, the disposition of the mud lumps
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a very interesting file. spent last night reading your file, your dossier." He left it there. I And that's all. He said, "Very interesting," and walked away or somebody else came up. You know, to have the president of the United States say, "I spent
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on. This was generally the function. We reproduced tapes and placed them in the archives and so on. As time went on, though, he wanted more things. He wanted to be able to read his speech while looking at the audience, and so we turned to the philosophy of the 4 LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of them for most of his life, at least until the very late end of it. In his eighties he had some setbacks. G: I've noticed in reading some of his letters that he was a good writer. He had a good writing style and expressed himself well. J: Well
  • . Johnson's family's love of reading; Aunt Effie Pattillo; Mr. Taylor's store; the Taylor home in Karnack, Texas; Mr. Taylor putting people to work during the Depression; Mr. Taylor's physical appearance; Mr. Taylor's love of Karnack and the Caddo Lake area
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • or not. I'm not sure at that moment whether I think we probably did. But he'd talked in this statement about the "drums of hate beating louder and louder and now they have done it." He didn't say right-wingers, but you couldn't read the statement and get
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • difficult it was to sleep that night because of the difference in time zones between Hawaii and where we had left, but there was nothing exceptional or unusual in Hawaii. Just everything went according to plan. We were accompanied by a press plane
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on one side of the table probably and she on the other and he read the dispatches and the reports that he had to become acquainted with. hower I don't know. Now, President Eisen- I don't think he often worked at night, but President Johnson, my
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • something wrong. mean, this elephant thing just got me that night. I Then I began to look around, and of course, the Cambodians at that time--I'd read in the newspapers or seen pictures of them mounted on Coca-Cola trucks going out to the battlefield
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this?" or "Get that fellow up here and talk to him for awhile." F: I was there that night, incidentally, and I remember that I thought your patter was quite effective. A: Did Cactus feed you some of that? He was giving me some of his lines and telling me who
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • night so I don't think--I doubt if we ever stayed overnight. I mean even going to California, we went, I remember going to California and we went to Los Angeles. I don't know which year we did that or what trip that was in. G: I think it was 1966. C
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • have read, they being light humor pieces and drama criticism . BA : That's really why I asked the question . later, I might as well ask it now . BE : I was going to ask it Does the President's reading and his general knowledge go beyond public
  • Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as a legislative leader. I remember LBJ very vividly that night.. me, of course. He paid no attention to He was polite; he was tall, I remarked about his tallness; he was well turned out, well-dressed. He looked tired and busy, as though he had had a good
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • day and night for about six weeks; I was a very new man--I had been in the job about four months--and I'd tried to learn about it, but I really did learn as I prepared for those hearings. It's like studying for an exam, for the exam of your life, you
Oral history transcript, Gene Latimer, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? Do you think his mother had anything to do with it, or his Uncle George? Did he ever talk about his own experiences debating in college or anything of this nature? L: No. I know, of course, that he did. Looking back afterwards, we've all read
Oral history transcript, Louise Hermey Stanford, interview 1 (I), 9/6/1989, by Sybil Jackson (Item)
  • that we might get picked off. J: I've read that the project was faced with mixed emotions from the black leaders, in fact, that Roy Wilkins had opposed it and Martin Luther King had supported it. Do you remember anything about those emotions
Oral history transcript, James E. Chudars, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the hangar, do all our work at night and have it all ready in the morning. But during the morning we would have to be met probably once for fuel, so they would get fuel out to us in trucks in fifty-gallon drums. Of course, if you've been in this business
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • against the whole bill, that'll get the guys on the committee mad as hell at them and we'll get a stronger bill. Let them go." The other thing that struck me about this day was that night. I believe this was the night because Gusty's was the restaurant. I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • didn't want to be the floor manager. Finally, after a time, we talked Peter Rodino into being the floor manager. But Johnson's commitment to that, if you want an example of it, I remember the night King was shot. I was in the White House. He [President
Oral history transcript, Carroll Keach, interview 2 (II), 7/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • competitive type Of course, all of them being associated with politicians, the leaders of the Little Congress were, you know, 'gung ho' too. I remember the night that Lyndon was elected speaker of the Little Congress. quite an occasion. It was held
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for the President I think to go into one of these tantrums you read about, but I never found it. I've always been very careful talking in public about this ever since Jack Valenti's famous speech in Boston where he "sleeps a little better at night," but I've always
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • together. boy~ a friend of mine. A young Jewish and a few others, got about eight or ten yards of black crepe and we climbed up on the roof of an adjacent building and draped this fiery cross in black crepe the night after they had tarred and feathered
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and involved going down to the operational training center and going through the whole bit, from night landings and safe-picking [onJ up. G: Did you get your wings? C: I don't know what I got, but I had an awfully good time. I believe I passed the course
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but that frequently existed for schools in those days. For example, a very large group of students was suspended from school for a few days because they had attended a traveling show on Wednesday night. The school and the churches and the homes were the centers
Oral history transcript, Josh H. Groce, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that proposition of Judge Davidson getting that, that was what . . . Well, at any rate, it started out after the Fort Worth convention, and I don't know whether you've read the Court of Civil Appeals opinion in that case or not. Well, that describes Fort Worth
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 12 (XII), 8/19/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --the road was full of us in those days going to Washington--and went as far as Roanoke. This again is sort of typical of that time. We spent the night in a tourist home. There were lots of rather nice-looking old homes, usually Victorian with white
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and working relationship, and that although he was sort of on the periphery, Ted Kennedy did, too, but that something in the chemistry between Bobby and Lyndon was always abrasive . 0: I suppose from what you read now . I don't know if it was before . You
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and started reading it and he had inserted it in the Record the previous day. Those were the kinds of things he did I could never quite understand. It was also at that session that he told me--I think it appeared in our book, I'm not sure--that his economic
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that. B: July 18? C: Yes, but I think the night of the seventeenth-- G: Yes, it must have been the seventeenth. C: He got on the phone immediately. But what I can't really remember is--I guess there are no papers, but I know Morse, [George] Meany
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy- -III- -4 which he could read early in the morning or late at night, he wru ld at least read the whole memorandum
  • Houston Johnson; LBJ’s ability to mimic and read people; Big Ed Johnson; LBJ’s views toward women.
Oral history transcript, Willie Day Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • -time job, and supposedly was given a half-day Ivork. So during that summer I went to school from eight to twelve, reported to ,mrk immediately thereafter, and asually left about twelve or one that night. I found out most of my part-time jobs
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • review the bills and in the early years, I would write an explanation of each one of them. Later on I just read them, got to know them, and marked the bad ones in my opinion and would tell the committee about those. The committee took its job seriously
Oral history transcript, Kittie Clyde Leonard, interview 1 (I), 7/27/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there could be nothing derogatory about a person--but we had to give very logical reasons why such and such was true or there couldn't be any arguments. They wouldn't allow it. So they made us think, and made us study, and made us read. M: What did you
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a family feeling present, and this has been true through all the years. [He] has never divided his time and his friends between work-friends and play-friends. ciations at night. his social friends. He doesn't turn off work asso­ He scoops up the people
  • . Shriver and Ethel Kennedy to Texas; LBJ’s ability to recall names; 1960 election night; began working for LBJ when VP.
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 3 (III), 8/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • standing outside during all of this period. I think the meeting was called for something like 12:00, it started about 12:30 and ended about 2:00. Johnson read us his Johns Hopkins speech about the r1ekong Delta which he gave a few days later--that dates
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was in the group. We met with the trio Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, Sunday, Sunday night. They had various meetings in which we met with them jointly with the union, or separately. And they left around a late hour Sunday night to report to the President
Oral history transcript, W. Sherman Birdwell, Jr., interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ? that
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • page But and mine on the other, people that read the papers could see the difference of the positions. And then the Constitution changed its position, our morning newspaper, and began to advocate it. And then people began to say that, "Well, maybe
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Lufkin that were on the football team: and Elvin Read. Ardis Hopper, Clark Gordon The first week of training I was there in order to get acquainted with the coaches, and at a Mrs. Gates' house, where the training table was being maintained, I met
Oral history transcript, William Robert Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • report that r made to Judge Davidson after the hearing was over, I read it, but I can't think of anything out of the ordinary that happened. I do remember that a subpoena was issued for Luis Salas, and the marshal couldn't find him the night before
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the following day. I recall I went to my mother-in-law's house in Cincinnati after making the speech and made approximately seventy-two phone calls from Cincinnati to Washington. I went out to dinner that night with the agent in charge, Ed Mason and Boris Letwin