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Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . l You said, I think, Bob Vin [?], is that his n-ame? D: Bob Vin, of Miami read about my entry in the race in a Miami newspaper, flew to Texas and sold me on the idea of the talkathon. G: Had he worked in that [George] Smathers campaign? D
Oral history transcript, Tommie W. Glick and Sarah Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that. reading my own thoughts into it. I may have been But I came away·with the feeling that she would have very much liked for him to retire. Mc~ Did Mrs. Johnson, Lady Bird, enjoy politics, do you think? G: Well, I wouldn't be able to say. I couldn't
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • which was, I thought, very outstanding . First of all, when he arrived late on a Sunday afternoon, he had to see a number of the key leaders--he had to see all of them really-­ to save face that night . And he did those calls very well . I
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the troubles than the good, because he'd read the good in the paper . And he wanted to know about the bad before he read it in the paper . And this involved the whole department . other words, [for example], oil policy : if there were any leaks from
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I think that would be something I would have read from the textbooks. But I know that I remember definitely his being majority leader. I remember that. F: Did your dad ever come home screaming about the way he ran the Senate? H: No, I honestly
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • met him the same night over at Tex Goldschmidt's, Alvin Wirtz and Kitty Mae. You see, Alvin was a good deal older than (Lyndon], and he had one daughter, but he kind of treated Lyndon like a son. Lyndon had these relationships with older men like
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , as I recall, was held in Mexico City--thought it was '46 but I think it must have been '47, one of the two--and I spent six weeks there, and this is what aroused my curiosity and it was then that I began my studies on Latin America, reading everything
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Humphrey and Henry Reuss, as a corps of young people who would go overseas and do good things in developing countries. I stayed with the program and enrolled in Georgetown Law School at night rather than going on to the Universi:ty of Virginia Law School
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • landed at Andrews, and I got my first lookC F: Jack Valenti told me that the first night he came up here after the assassinationCyou know, he was in DallasCthey landed on the White House lawn, came through the White House, and went over
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that night. The next day was spent in various activities, swimming, bowling, and walks and driving around the compound and having relaxed conversations. In the evening John Chancellor showed us a sixteen-millimeter film which he had just taken of the ranch
  • The Krims’ first visit to Camp David; LBJ’s hospitality; an all-night discussion at Camp David; John Chancellor, Marianne Means, and an argument over Jack Valenti’s statement that he sleeps better knowing the President is in the White House; Bobby
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • · fo the Dodge Hotel but they all lived in the basement or the sub-basement. It was a lot cheaper, and we could put two and three in a room. We found that we didn't have any time to do anything except finally fall in bed at night and get up early
"LBJ as I Knew Him," by Mildred Stegall (Item)
  • not guilty. Once a week I reported to the Oval Office at 6 PM to relieve LBJ's secretaries. A number of the President's Assistants like Walt Rostow brought in confidential material for LBJ to go over at night. It was known as night reading
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but see what so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so has to say about it." These memoranda went to the President in his night reading. always be a ballot at the end of the memorandum for him to check. There would It would LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 2 (II), 8/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was the biggest it ever was, pupils. They would range in grades from the first grade to the seventh. We didn't call it preschool; we probably called it primer, which was the first book one had. It began with one-sentence reading lessons: "This is Will. How do you
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • at night, the rest of the time I was in the field. G: What were you supposed to do exactly, in helping the task force accomplish? M: Well, I had a--in my case I was quite fortunate. My counterpart, the Vietnamese colonel commanding the task force
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: SAMUEL GAMMON INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Gammon's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: A night flight. An overnight. MG: I see. Let's start by focusing on the purpose of the trip. What was the Vice
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Hays Counties, and he did a magnificient job for me. but very active working group. He set up an informal I remember Wilton Wood and Bill Deason who, I think now, is on the Interstate Commerce Commission-F: I saw him election night. H: Well, I
Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the steam right out of us. In that particular campaign, why, we worked all night long getting our committee plans ready. The next morning we'd read the Los Angeles paper, which was being put out with the aid of Mr. Kennedy out there, wherever he sat his
Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he·could get us established in a basement room at the Dodge. We did, and we spent two or three nights out there and rode to town with him. He was going over the newspaper. He told me, "Now, John, if you want to amount to something up here you will read
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Ackley, Connor, [Cyrus] Vance, I guess, Katzenbach. (Inaudible) it goes on from two-thirty in the afternoon all through the day, on and off through the evening until eleven-thirty at night by my book. The President says, "Look, we can't swear that we're
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bartlett -- II -- 8 M: Would you like to just read the memo into the record? B: There's a memo just about
Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Ramsey Clark -- Interview IV -- 5 On the other hand, at Detroit I was first called a little after midnight the Sunday night that the riot got out of control. And Mayor Cavanagh called and he said Governor Romney was with him
Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • started reading my columns and news stories in the paper in Oklahoma, which is his home state. We became friends and a dialogue developed. expressed an interest. I I told him that I wanted to work for the President if I could, do anything
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sure would remember. But at any rate, when he went out on the road the first time I was assigned to go with him. On most of these trips out into the district he would leave early in the morning, make several towns and come back that night
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was sheer nonsense. Anybody that read the Yalta agreements with any kind of sense of reality would realize that about all it really did was to confirm points of strength that the Soviet Union held and points of strength that we held. weren't very rational
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the byline that they read . F: B: Did you tend to travel separately or did you gang up? Some of us traveled separately, some traveled together . Most of the time Acheson of the Times Herald rode with me, I can't recall his first name . F: B: F: B: F: B
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 1 (I), 4/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . carefully, and he hoisted aboard what he read. But when he read, he read So during the time that I was Deputy Director and principally since I've been Director, I saw to it that he got the right publications put in his night-time reading. I could tell
Oral history transcript, James Cain, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that. Occasionally you would be in the room at night whe n you'd be visiting there and if something came across when he was doing his night reading, he would say, "What do you think about this"--this kind of thing. But I tried to stay out of these things as much as I
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Kampelman. I had closed my mind to it. One night I got home from a National Symphony concert. After the concert we actually went to the Austrian Embassy, I remember that too. So we didn't get home until something like 1:15. When I got home there were
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that get into the office before anyone has had a chance to pull things together and read the traffic out of Washington and digest it, and stay there until all hours of the night and exhaust everybody really aren't doing the mission or their staff that much
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 2 (II), 12/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • you mentioned was the other crisis that you would like to talk about, there are a couple of things that seem a little incongruous. On television the other night, for example, a history professor at Georgetown, I think, named [Hasham] Sharabi, said
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to them in dealing with these matters. Well, as I see now in papers which I've read that you've provided, papers coming from within the White House, it was clear that as the report was coming to Joe Califano, that he was looking at it from the viewpoint
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 4 (IV), 8/8/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Antonio to visit, or he'd come up there with his debate team. I"d ~~ I saw him on an average of once every two months during the year and a half in which he was coaching debate at Sam Houston in Houston. As you'll recall if you've read the history
Oral history transcript, Herbert Jenkins, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • available for everybody [was enacted] then, generally, every­ . body that· was for 1aw and order accepted .it, and .we: went from there. . ,. ,. B: Was it that easy? It seems to be, just.from what I recall of reading the papers at the time. Atlanta
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • representative, because they didn't want to take any chance on him not being elected. So Avery Dowell became ill and twelve of the leaders in McKinney asked me if I'd come to Dudley Perkins' office one night, and we did. I was the only young man there; the other
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh (Interruption) G: You hinted at a rather interesting point earlier. If I read you right, you said that the question of press relations was in some ways a reflection of what can be called a generation gap back in the states. Z: Well, I
Oral history transcript, Henriette Wyeth Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)
  • , in fact only one with President Johnson. the day itself. I would like for Mrs. Hurd now to tell me about She was just telling me that it was a disturbing day in many ways, and I will let her say why. H: Well, the disturbing day started the night before
Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was superb at reading the moods. He was so much like Melville Grosvenor here, he reminded me very much--not necessarily in the way the mind works but the way the heart works, the moods. Of course I've worked very closely with Dr. Grosvenor over the years
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 1 (I), 8/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Ben B. Lindsey, the juvenile court judge. He became the most famous juvenile judge in the world, and he was always in a controversial position. F: My early memories-- C: You must have read his Companionate Marriage. F: Yes, and the local