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Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

to the Senate--and at the time when Sam Rayburn was Speaker. Do you recall what you knew or had heard of Lyndon Johnson when you first came into Congress? A: Yes. I did not know him, of course, but I knew of him. I knew of him by reputation and having read

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the message. The President went over--I don't know how many drafts were produced. The President went over many of them. I think he virtually never talked to Goodwin directly. Valenti and I dealt with Goodwin. Moyers. On the night before the State of the Union

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Now, if I read you right, what you're saying is that these men, and men like them, formed the cadre who organized and directed the Am I reading you properly on this? insurgency. ~I: That's right. G: Now, most authorities waul d agree with that, I

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, there will probably be another conference call. read-out. We'll discuss what might come up and we receive a In the meantime, we're in touch with each other on an hourly basis and if necessary all night long. M: So you don't get at cross purposes. D: No; quite

Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was in in high school, and, of course, the Longhorn Band in those days traveled by train to most of the football games we attended, but a cross-country trip, spending a couple of nights on the train--that's what it took then--was something new. I 3 LBJ

Oral history transcript, William H. Jordan, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Capitol in the morning in the 7:30 to 8:30 range, and they left here in the 9:30 to 10:30 range at night. They were here, Senator Russell and I believe Senator Johnson, every Saturday and most Sundays. the Senate. There has been a change in Now we find

Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

he's come from something he never expected to raise his hand. (Laughter) CTJ: Oh, Lordy, Lordy, I'll raise both of mine. LB: Bird and I were talking about that the other night when I was saying how beautiful Austin was here, and she was talking

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

been where it was. H: I must have met him, yes. Because when he ran for Congress, the night before election -- late afternoon before election -- Aubrey Williams called me and said, IICan you raise five hundred dollars in New York? We have no money

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

campaigns. B: Did you have anything to do with other campaign mechanics like this group I've read about, the five o'clock club, or the Department of Dirty Tricks, to think up ways to bedevil the opposition? R: No. That was a childish sort of operation

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

had almost an hour's conference with the President on the night of the twenty-third. M: The plane turned back, you were told what happened, and you returned to Washington then? H: Right. M: Johnson, meanwhile, with Mrs. Kennedy and the rest

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://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 7 s: You know, you read it carefully, it wasn't libelous, but it looked like

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, Bill Manchester wrote in his book--he got carried away and wrote that it was a Bible that Kennedy often read at night while he was making trips. He would read this Bible at night before he would turn out his lights, Manchester said. I later tracked

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or drink anything except the problems he has as majority leader. He won't relax." That was on a Friday night. On Sunday morning we picked up the paper and read that over the \'Jeekend he had had his heart attack. F: Did'Mr. Truman ever express himself

Oral history transcript, Winston Taylor, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

? T: She was a very unusual woman. She liked to read, and she had a house full of books. G: Was she active in the community? T: Yes. Of course, I was just a child. I don't know too much about her. I think she entered into politics. G: What kind

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

about whether to accept one or the other; yet any deviation from LBJ's particular formulation was unacceptable to LBJ. I'll tell the story later how we finally came out. At the beginning, during that week before the convention, before the Sunday night

Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Party in 1956? P: In 1956? No, I wasn't in on that. (Laughter) I've heard enough about it. M: Sounds almost as if you're ,happy you weren't. P: I sure am. That was a trauma. (Laughter) Judge Wilson, who died here last Friday night

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Well, read that little story there. G: You're referring to the story here that's in the Texas Highway Department magazine. W: I met him right there; that's the first day I met him. If you read that story, you'd kind of find out what it was all about

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

night and I nearly all night, because I think we reached New York and docked shortly after 3 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 2 (II), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

something ready in a package"--at that time, and then of course the assassination just floored all of us for a while. G: Was there something that President Kennedy had read I wonder, like I ' v e heard that he read Night Comes to the Cumberlands

Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

. I received a call on the fifteenth of February, 1967, at six o'clock at night; the operator said, "The White House is calling," and I almost dropped LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the day that he was leaving or the day before he was leaving--he nearly always flew in the daytime, he didn't like to fly at night. As an aside, I was rather startled when I was in the office, never having been around an office like this before, where

Oral history transcript, Harry Nachlin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in the helicopter, and we didn't know how it would do, and actually, it did real good, but we made that whole trip. In any event-G: You were there primarily to maintain-- N: Well, I was the crew chief on the helicopter, yes, and every night I would look

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the day would bring because in fact there was night reading to be gone through, and there were messages that had come up from the National Security Council, and there were telephone calls coming in, and the log was still in existence. And yet somehow you

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, this is where your memory can go wrong. I know I remember her talking a whole lot about him, particularly after we'd gone to bed, chatting at night about Lyndon. I think she did say that to me, and possibly she said it to my mother and father, because she

Oral history transcript, Ben Crider, interview 1 (I), 8/1/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

in the sand, afrajd they would be robbed that night, and the next morning they had to dig it up. But the total amount wouldn't have run over fifty dollars. B: What did they get scared about, do you know? C: They were afraid of tramps and hijackers

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: When did you begin to have some idea that someone named Lyndon Johnson was in the world? M: In my book--did you read my book? F: Yes. M: I said he was going to be President. Oh, I knew Lyndon and Mrs. Johnson-- as I said before, Sam Rayburn

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Bundy, Walter Jenkins were with him. F: You had a regular White House pass or EOB pass or something like that? R: You had no difficulty in getting in? In those days, that's right. up that night. And we met in the EOB elevator going LBJ
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Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

normally at a night speaking where he would spend the night and take off the next morning maybe for some other area. F: Did you spend the night there or would you be busy getting to the first place the next day? P: Well, I would not spend the night

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Let's talk some more about the Johnson treatment and his ability to persuade people . W: I think one thing--and I saw this often, if I can think of explicits--is that he could read people almost on meeting them . Therefore it's almost as though he

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the President's night reading a draft of how I would treat it and why I would treat it the way I decided to treat it. I thought that was an enormously difficult task for a physician to write for a "layman" concerning why you decided to do it one [way]. He said

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

materials of large corporate executives, their mail is a problem. We all know instances both in and out of govern ment where a letter has been released bearing the signature of an important man and he has never bothered to read it. I honestly cannot

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)

it is a good friend of mine, Ralph A1bertazzi e. M: Albertazzie. Did you read the article in yesterday's Austin American? C: No, I didn't see that. M: I've got a copy. C: My wife's got a copy of it; she told me about it last night, but I'll leave

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 9 (IX), 11/18/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, maybe grandchildren sometime. See what I mean? No soap. I was going to obligate it to me someway maybe, off the record. No, it isn't either. You've read it [the speech]? G: Yes. J: What do you think about it? G: I think it's a good speech. J

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

state for all intents and purposes. I had read about Mr. Johnson and first met him in 1948 in his campaign for the Senate. I was very much interested in that ca'mpaign, very strong for Mr. Johnson. We moved to Longview. Through Baile y Sheppard, who

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the job of waking up Ambassador Lodge at nine-thirty in the evening and telling him that. He was grumpy at first: "Why are you waking me up in the middle of the night?" And I said, "Well, sir, it's a telegram from the President with instructions about

Oral history transcript, Bo Byers, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

theme that might be injected . If you thought you had some- thing that was really a lot better than you'd written the night before for your overnighter, we'd call in and dictate a new lead . Virtually never dictated a complete new story during
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Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

think he was down there. I never heard he was down there. I read some of this--I never heard that he was down there. There were others that I heard were down there, but I don't know that they were. I saw one or two friends down there. G: Who did you see
family; Owens with the Johnsons at the Driskill Hotel in Austin the night of the 1964 presidential election.

Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

directly to Vietnam. The other portion of them in August of 1964 were told to report to Washington to learn Vietnamese, to think and read and study Vietnam, to focus on the problem of the war for approximately one year's training, which included a stint

Oral history transcript, Fleur Cowles, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

innovations, so he decided that the symposiums must be in it its name. Last night was the end of the first of the Flair Symposia - one that was dedicated to discovering, predicting and analyzing "the future of the printed word." I have lived by the printed

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 26 (XXVI), 1/9/1982-1/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

much, that all credit was due to me for raising the girls. That's not so, but the compelling nature of his job did mean that he spent very little time with them, although when I read his letters to his 2 LBJ Presidential Library http

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