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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 35 (XXXV), 3/8/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this really meant a lot to him. (Laughter) Well, anyhow, Lyndon liked the tale so much it was worth the time. We began to hear rumblings. Jake Pickle would report to us about the temperature politically in Texas. General feeling was that Lyndon would face
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , to have my assurance that I would be working on behalf of the three networks the day after the convention. He was Bill Lawrence, who was an old friend of mine. It is worth noting that George McGovern gave strong support to the Humphrey nomination despite
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ; he called the wives. Vice President Humphrey was always good at that, too; he'd always come in there and send letters or telegrams or call. M: Well, now, after this do you have any more contact with Johnson? L: After that ceremony
Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh GARZA -- I -- 5 and we got him to land at the parade grounds of the old Fort Brown. By that time the Brownsville Junior College had moved out there alreadyo F: Where was that? About where the motel is now? G: No, no, no. F
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had enough points to be discharged, but I'd been transferred from the Eighth Service Command where I was in the Intelligence to Fort Ho 1abi rd at Ba ltimore, and I had an opportunity to see Johnson at that time. I wanted to get out of the army since
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they just had stars in their eyes about the future and they loved the light and all that went with it. And then suddenly their hopes were all dashed and they looked upon 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in smoke if he ever read it himself. But it's well worth having. What it shows you is that this was a man who had a traveling American senator's view--and a highly personalistic one--of how he was acting. So that the size of the bed and the shape
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of an ambassador's job in heading up a mission was not Ambassador [Henry Cabot] Lodge's strong forte. And they thought if they sent out a deputy who was experienced as a deputy, that he could somehow pull together the country team operations, which are normally
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • sense of history, and she thought that it was worth having her close by for sacrificing some continuity in Lynda's schooling at the University of Texas. being a member of Phi Beta Kappa. As it turned out, it did cost her Lynda had the grades
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that they were there because--this is something, incidentally, which I don't think you've mentioned in your questions but maybe it's worth mentioning here. In carrying out the Taylor-Rostow recommendations and bringing in this new equipment and bringing
  • in 1963 when Nolting was on leave; attitude of presidents of Vietnam; Ambassador Lodge; telegram of August 24; Krulak-Mendenhall mission; John Richardson; the coup; Trueheart leaves Vietnam; David Nes
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to entertain any questions, Mr. Chairman." Whereupon Bill Hess said, IIAre there any questions?" Carl Vinson said, "Yes, Mr. Chairman. would like to propound a few questions to the witness." I So here is the old IIsix-star Admiral" of the Navy. He runs his
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was concerned--we sent a buck slip over to the Air Force to ask them to give a report on the case--until we got a telegram from the grandfather that said that the boy had died as a result of the hazing he had been given by his sergeant. kind of jazzed things up
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 3 (III), 12/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • any involvement. I would just make one side commentary for whatever it's worth, and that is I think you have to remember that due to then-climatic conditions, nearly all of your military bases were in the South, and I assume Texas, too. So it really
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that was addressed to Jesse Kellam, or I think maybe just to KTBC--no, it was to Jesse. I think she said to Jesse Kellam. And it took thirty-four cents worth of postage and I was to put that on and to mail it that day. report. It had to go out that day
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • himself or he had George Christian really take a shot at Romney on the brainwashed issue, and turned it into a national issue that devastated Romney in the campaign. But it's worth--and I remember talking to the President about that and I remember him
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • what a station like this in their opinion would be worth. Did they contact you on this? K: No. There's certain information that is available to the general public in the files of the Federal Communi:cati,ons: Commtsston. Tt'·s not full and complete
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : This was a program that went into very high gear in about Mayor June of 1964, and it was a program in which President Johnson himself was personally very interested. We literally got three telegrams a day from the White House giving his latest advice on areas
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That's what all these meetings on July 26 are leading up to getting the union and the airlines to agree. At some point we made a decision that the President--that it was worth bringing them in to Washington. And my hunch is that that paper up front really
Oral history transcript, John M. Cabot, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . And two months later I got a peremptory telegram saying "Ask Mr. Gronouski's agreement." M: That's the first you knew about your impending replacement. C: That's the first I knew about it. M: Were you even given any reason later for this? C: I
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • as a lark. At the end of my senior year, when I had received my degree, I was appointed as a youngster to the faculty with the privilege of taking graduate study. I had no sooner started this when I got a telegram from Charles Evans Hughes, the Secretary
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Governor Price Daniel, who was a young lawyer in Liberty, Texas during the 1930's and whose political star was beginning to rise. I supported him actively. F: You knew Price Daniel then back in your young Democratic days? H: Yes, I first met Price
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was rather technical. While I was at Calumbia the opportunity to. go to Fort Sill came up. I put in for it and I was sent to Sill. another, Oklahoma. F: Yes. M: Not Texas. F: No, well, it's just across the river. (Laughter) I came fram one hot cauntry
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • center. I also remember in 1968 when Nixon came in he wanted to shut them down. There were ten times the hue and cry when they wanted to close a Job Corps center. G: Or when they closed the one in Oregon I guess it was, Fort Benoit, Wayne Morse's. M
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a telegram saying I had been selected for appointment, would I accept the appointment, I didn't know. So that was when I got in touch with Ray to tell him all about it. F: It was time to catch him up. R: He was very excited about it and thought yes
Oral history transcript, Edward Joseph, interview 1 (I), 8/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • telegrams, but he had overlooked the fact that Martin Dies was real strong. Joe Belden had made a poll in which he showed that some of the counties in East Texas were strong for Martin Dies, and some of the people who LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an appointment through Liz, or whatever method that you can, with the Vice President." He wrote back and said that, then, Walter Jenkins would be available and would love to talk to me. So I took a three-day pass from Fort Stewart, Georgia; came to Washington
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of. You're not supposed to do that. Well, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Baines Johnson, both from the Lone Star State, said, "Ah, ha. He've trapped that old coot in a political faux pas that is just without parallel. ll them where to cut it. as ~peaker, So
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • exception. But it was a general practice and would cover more than 95% of the documentation. Perhaps it should be noted that any approval of outgoing telegrams was given on the original green sheet which went to the Code Room; therefore, the pink copies
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for a miracle. He was disabused of that in short order. I'm relating this because obviously, they were pursuing a cover-up and they were deeply concerned, yet the nation, the press were oblivious to the whole thing. It's worth noting that this was the major
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with local business, political and community leaders. I was in Louisville, which was a potential city, for the presentations. I returned to my hotel rather late and there was a message for me and a telegram. It was from Frank Stanton in which he said that CBS
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • worth a candle. I think that he really He thought that the only way he could get any meaningful negotiations in Viet Nam was if he took himself out of the political arena, and I think that's right. I don't believe he could ever have brought
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the evening Washington Star, "Secret LBJ Memo Bared," and it was this talking paper that we had put together the evening before. And the--I told you the story--Joe blamed the whole incident on me with the President, and it took a little while for that to get
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with or for Mr. Johnson? McG: I never traveled on his plane, and I really think the only travel I ever did sort of in conjunction with one of his trips was to go out to Fort Campbell when he stopped by 8 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to do two studies. The first was ways and means to increase the capabilities of what was our special warfare center at Fort Bragg. And second, stemming from that, and I guess partially as a result of that first study, to come up with ideas
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] whether I'm right on the state or not but it was in the morning, and he was handed a telegram where Senator Kennedy had asked for permission to appear before various state caucuses and by error, the secretary had included the state of Texas. Immediately
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to be violated by any journalist worth his salt. But if he thinks you are using that as an excuse for other purposes, your so-called security just won't last five minutes. Establish ground rules in dealing with the press clearly and without any misunderstandings
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he was going to win so easy in 1964. It wasn't even worth the contest. It was almost too bad that we had to spend the money on the campaigns and on the election. (Interruption) --part of a series of memos that Buz [Horace Busby] wrote to them, all
Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was particularly enraged, I got this telegram telling me that the Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister's advice-which had been to me to let this man go quickly--telling me that this advice was right, and I was really furious to think that I would see the day when our