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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • And the Austin district then was more of a New Deal district than most districts in Texas. too much of it; I read about it of course. him speak in the campaign. I didn't watch And I don't recall hearing I don't know whether I heard any of the speeches
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and if the President decided that he did want me to go, then I would be prepared to do so. I went out to lunch over at Dillon, Read and got a call at lunch from Nick saying that Secretary Rusk and the President had met further, and that they did want me to go to Cyprus
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on Sunday night and he had a little press conference on Friday. We had a drink in his private office off the Oval Office. He wanted us to argue with him as to whether he should or he shouldn't, and I think he had pretty well made up his mind then for certain
  • ; working with Marvin Watson; night reading; LBJ’s memory; LBJ’s humor; a Chinese employee of Ambassador Raul Castro who came to work for LBJ; LBJ’s and staff’s relationship with the press and privacy; LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968
Oral history transcript, Daniel J. Quill, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • Lady Bird. Lyndon called me one day and said he wanted to introduce me to his girl and suggested that we have dinner. Of course, he didn’t have any money and I didn’t either. So, I said, “You know I went to a place last night that sure had a wonderful
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • explicit here, but reading these documents from this year you really get the impression that he was raring to go after something else. He wanted to run for the Senate, or he wanted to do something else. J: Well, I think--yes. In every job that he
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . [Reading a memo] "Mike and Joe Califano visited Senator Ribicoff separately. Last night the Senator called Joe Bowman and told him that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, William A. Knowlton, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there was a plane because I was standby. So I went down instead and took a cab to the bus station, got an all-night bus to San Francisco full of Jehovah's Witnesses on the way to a 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Let's see now, his actual Boston campaign, that came later. I've got to be careful not to confuse the two. G: According to my notes, the meetings were held at night after you got there. R: Right. Don't forget, we got there fairly late in the day
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: HUGH SIDEY INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE: Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 M: The purpose is obviously not to make you duplicate things that you have written. I've tried to read not only your books but as many of the columns
Oral history transcript, Victor Ferrari, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . She wanted me to start the second semester--and this is a woman who could hardly speak English and could not read any English. But to these people, coming in from the European countries at that time, education was very important and they always
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 2 (II), 2/12/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- II -- 4 the President standing in the back of the office. It wasn't until I got the transcript that I read, "Yes." That's the way
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , I thought that all was ended. I did receive from Senator Johnson a letter which I think was written after the first trial in Austin. It's dated August 6, 1960, and is a rather interesting letter. Maybe I should read it into the record, because
Oral history transcript, Stuart Morrison Long, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • mayor may not become a member of the Supreme Court at the present reading, and Ed Clark who did become an ambassador to Australia a little bit later. At any rate, we opened this new radio station in 1946, and I was employed as a part-time news editor
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • we lose money all through the winter. And to do this, you have to run either three 8-hour shifts or two l2-hour shifts. At this particular time I was working most of the night at the 7-Up plant, running the machinery myself, and working during
Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • of them we'd known before, and others we had read about and known of. Others, like ourselves, were more or less anonymous in this group. So, it was an unfor- gettable evening. We spent the night and two successive nights there as guests
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton, interview 1 (I), 4/6/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . in 1981. What is to The first part was The second part was written a few weeks ago The third part will be my answers to the questions that Mike Gillette may have for me after I have read the script which I have written out. This is recording some
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • seldom did they get action footage broadcast, partly because when there's an infantry fire fight, everybody gets down and you can't see much. The enemy attacked at night; the allies did their sweeps in daylight. As Professor Lawrence Lichty
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • traveled I received a call from a man by the name of Lyndon B. Johnson, to my surprise, about four o'clock on a Friday afternoon. duced himself. I went to the telephone. He intro- I told him yes, I had read of him in the papers, of his having come
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • eight and eight-thirty every morning, and Hould stay over there and vic;it with the President, go over with the President the night reading which I ~ill refer to in just a second; and take whatever instructions th0 President hac for the day and relay
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was delivering newspapers in Bishop and I read in the Houston Chronicle that the NYA had been set up, and that he was going to be the administrator of it ; that you could get $15 .50 a month and go to the University by working two hours a day or some such thing
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. One of my best paintings, which is now in the apartment in New York, the Fragonard called "Lady Reading a Letter," was in the hands of Göring, who wanted it more than anything in the world. He even made an offer through Seyss-Inquart, who
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in behalf of the visit, day and night, as I had for several weeks, I was beginning to experience a sense of well, "it's just terrific." Then all at once the motorcade came to a stop. say it sounded like maybe a car backfiring. At first I would have to I
Oral history transcript, James M. Rowe, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to the polls in Duval County. They were never able to check that out because of the fact that the ballots were burned, but on the night of the election, I got a report from the county chairman at nine-thirty at night. G: Now, this was the Duval County chairman
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in the evening. M: Were you sometimes called back then? C: If you were working on a speech you would. It was very rare that you were called back by him, or that I was. But if it was something that was due in his night reading you would sometimes labor right
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • York Times. We should get that story. I came into a meeting in the White House that morning and I had not read the Times, or at least I hadn't read that story, and walked into this meeting the President was having with a group of mayors in the Cabinet
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • advertising agency around the clock for two straight nights and days and we completed the program. Meanwhile I was working with the advance men on this dinner. My first connection with the trip came when the President and the Vice President landed
  • back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Gerald Mann, that was attorney general, a popular attorney general, too. So he decided to run, and then Lyndon did. Well, election night it showed Lyndon 5000 ahead of O'Daniel. The papers there, which are in the Library, show where they conceded
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in, Daddy called every sheriff in every county up till he got to E1 Paso. But they traveled by night and slept in the daytime until they got out of Texas. Then of course he ended up--started out picking peaches and working with the other boys, you know
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a resolution was read one morning by the reading clerk who had this big old voice, you could hear him all over Austin almost, reading without the benefit of a public address system. And he said: r~e it resolved that tonight after the House adjourns
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that we shouldn't have this forced on us. Well, here I was in Washington and this bill was brought up. My wife was in Austin. I'd take the bill home at night and and I read that bill backwards and forward. And I analyzed. tri.ed to reason with myse1f
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • simply by reading and asking questions and staying at the office until all hours of the night. By the way this is an extremely time-consuming job. many visitors to see. You have so You never really leave the office before maybe 7 o'clock, 6 or 7
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 13 (XIII), 7/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to get some relief for the areas where it didn't rain. G: Did he talk to Webb about this issue, do you know? J: I don't know. Webb's [stuff]. He was a great admirer of Webb's and had read all of And as you know, President Johnson was not an avid
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a speech . . . [reading chronology] No, it couldn't have been that night. You don't have me in this one; I was there. "Motor to Tullinge Airport"--that really was something. They had a demonstration of the--what do they call them? The Blue Angels
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? A: Yes, but I don't remember much about that. I was not privy to that or present at the time he did. I do recall that he did, I read about it. But I don't know much about that. 4 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ? Because Eisenhower had a good smile, [was] very diplomatic, and believed in carrying out orders. Winston Churchill was trying to get us involved, to get us to help invade Africa. Every time he'd come to Washington to see * Mr. Johnson's readings
Oral history transcript, Robert L. Hardesty, interview 1 (I), 3/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to go to school at George Washington University in 1951. school with time out for the Army. It was almost night I spent almost ten years at George Washington in English literature and working on my master's. F: Why did you pick George Washington? H
  • Kintner replaced Valenti; expanded writing staff; Larry O’Brien; 90 to 100 items a day marked in Congressional Record for LBJ who read each morning; LBJ never forgot opposition, insults or slights; Stewart Udall called LBJ "a man of the land;" Hardesty
Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that was 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 Selden -- I :.. :. . 5 Twelfth Night
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gronouski -- II -- 2 M: Get clearances at 2:00 a.m. in the morning? G: He was in the air already. So my DCM [deputy chief of mission] was on the phone with Mr. [Mieczyslaw] Sieradski all night
Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : But how did you work it, because it seems like you must have had a very limited membership? P: Just we fellows who were running around together seemed to associate, and there were nine of us. I know this night we went down to the Hofheinz Hotel
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 4 (IV), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and that, by damn, he was going to call them back in session and stick it to them. When I heard that on the radio, Truman's acceptance speech--I think we were in Tyler that night, something like that--and my heart sank. G: Is that right? B: Well, he called