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Oral history transcript, Lawrence McQuade, interview 1 (I), 1/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 19 (XIX), 2/6-7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • goodbye to him in a way. But nevertheless, he had been a bachelor a long time and so marriage was highly due. And it was a sweet little wedding out at the chapel at Fort Myer. Then we had all their good friends and ours. It was just real convivial
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • SE 1.-201 He recorP.r.;cnded a l~an by of Ale",:2.Eder ~~s being his choice, period. Wasn't first, wasn't pl-cfe2:'2nti::l, it and t~L~, 2 ',)elS bis ct' c:c. The Att':Jrney General did some checking I recall, first starred in about January
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 4 (IV), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Shriver -- IV -- 4 [Philip] Hart's state of Michigan, and especially Fort Benoit in Oregon, which made Wayne Morse so furious. Do you recall any of these other than
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Shriver. There were many mornings like this. Sometimes they were on issues that were really negligible. We had two reporters in Washington, Eve Edstrom of the Post and a young fellow at the Star whose specialty was the leaked memo. I always found it rather
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • streams coincided. B: Did you know Mr. Johnson before then, or know of him? M: No, I had one connection with him.I had never met him. My wife and I had sent him an outraged telegram the year before. He had spoken on the Senate floor after Senator
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the United States. I don't know, from that point on [we had a good relationship]. Not necessarily because of that, but just because of the feeling that Mrs. Johnson conveyed in terms of her way of turning to someone for either two cents worth of advice
Oral history transcript, William E. Colby, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • worth the experiment and certainly might have brought about these things. The problem was that this launched in about mid-1959, just about the time the communists were deciding it was time to resume the rebellion. Well, when you spread this ten families
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Gordon Fulcher, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the result of a special committee of three which was set up when I went there as ambassador; it's called the Panama Review Committee; it includes the governor, the four-star general in command of the southern command, Cinc South, and the U.S. ambassador who
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • "duty free" gifts under $10 that are worth far in excess of $10. There's no way in the world with that type of legislation that you can really control the flow; Customs Service doesn't have enough people to check these packages and make sure
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and we decided that it was worth trying to make a demonstration that one could in fact prevent this developmental decline, and we had demonstrated that. It was just prior to the time that the Economic Opportunity Act was passed. But because of Mr
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to explain some­ thing, I like to go back and explain why. very impatient. Something that always made him He had some remark once that he was afraid to ask me the time because he might get a lecture in the sidereal movement of the stars
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 12 (XII), 12/21/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did get a peek at it and decided that it wasn't worth all the Sturm und Orang, but that's a dim memory on my part. I know that in the long run of history it's not going to make any difference. G: There was another report, as I recall, by Johns
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • say to him that itwas worth it to have those twenty-four education bills, or umpteen health bills, in a given session, because, IIthese are the people that are going to be directly affected that I saw the other day." 11m trying to think of the more
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to him about the problems that I was going to have with John Mc C l e l 1 a n , who was in charge of that on the Senate side. There isn1t a thing that I could say to John McC l e l 1 a n that's going to convince him of the worth of this. F: He probably
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • to that he couldn't really spend the time with internal problems and things of that sort? S: I guess it suffered, but if I had to make an overall judgment, I'd say I would probably do it the same way again, that it was worth the chaos and the frustration
Oral history transcript, Gerald N. McAllister, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with the various people in getting preparations underway for the wedding. We didn't decide on a date at that point, and it seems to me as though about, oh, I don't know, within a week or thereabouts, I had a telegram from the President and Mrs. Johnson inviting
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Roy Elson, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and they offered me a job. I sent back a one-word telegram, "Yes." They asked me to be there December 1, 1952. It was right after the election, of course. So I went back. But Carl Hayden, in those days, used to go back to the schools, the universities, to get
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . life. Oh, d e f i n i t e l y . As I sa y,, p o l i t i c s was his He played p o l i t i c s ; he loved p o l i t i c s . When you g et somebody who i s as a d r o i t as he i s and loved the game and played the game f o r what i t was worth
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it, send the telegram. If he doesn't announce it, tear it up." Johnson went on the radio and made the announcement. G: In your discussions with him up to this point, was it assumed that you would stay on as Peace Corps director, and how was this decision
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and ta 1ked it over and just decided it wasn't worth that. N0\'1 we were faced 1~ith a s i tuation with Governor [G. Mennen) Hill iams, who had indica ted he 1·1ould put him­ self in i f necessary and there 1•1ould be a candidate. negotiations began
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • telegram August 24, 1964 [1963] that is alleged to have led to Diem's downfall. This was when I believe Kennedy and McNamara and Rusk were out of town. Did Johnson get involved in that because they were gone? B: No, he didn't get involved with it at all
  • LBJ as Vice-President; Cuban Missile Crisis; August 1964 telegram regarding Diem fall; Roger Hilsman; JFK assassination; DeGaulle and LBJ; LBJ's early presidency; LBJ and Vietnam; Ball's Vietnam memoranda to LBJ; Tonkin Gulf incident and resolution
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barnes--I--2 that was a thrilling political experience to be nominated at the age of -twenty-one to the Texas House, and I suppose, as any young man, I had stars in my eyes. M: Had
Oral history transcript, O.J. Weber, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and take the combination B.A./LL.B. This is really what I had had in mind. Upon transferring here I became engrossed with the government department, particularly [because] Dr. Redford and Dr. O. D. Weeks [?] were there at that time, and a young bright star
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 8/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • themselves the Black Stars. I'm 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 Johnson
Oral history transcript, Levette J. (Joe) Berry, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • could qualify to be a Black Star and that LBJ said that he wasn't getting enough out of it for what you had to put into it . (Laughter) B: No, I think that's undoubtedly correct . Stars . You mentioned the Black I was made a member my sophomore
  • Biographical information; first awareness of LBJ; impressions of LBJ; the Black Stars; Professor Greene; reflections on SWTSTC ; LBJ's reputation on campus; evaluation of LBJ's political skills; LBJ and Dr. Evans; recollections of other students
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the close relationship I had with him, I would say that it made him much more careful about his personal affairs in as close a privacy as possible. Now, one example would be the time that I had a call from a friend at the Washington Evening Star, and he told
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the name of them. G: I can't give it. I don't know. D: Well, anyway, they were supposedly--Mao was very popular in those days in certain circles, Chairman Mao of China, so it was the Red Star Collectives, I think they were called. for you. Anyway, I
Oral history transcript, Richard Spinn, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : The [College] Star. S: The Star. G: Was he popular with other students? S: Yeah, I would say that. Because he was friendly. He was a outgoing chap. Did anybody tell you that at one time he carried a nickname for awhile, when he was in school there. G
  • Biographical information; early education; Spinn's experiences as a student at Southwest Texas State Teacher's College (SWTSTC) in San Marcos; LBJ's reputation on campus at SWTSTC; student organizations and dating; LBJ as a debater; the Black Stars
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and his connection with the College Star and the Harris Blair Literary Society, which was a big organization out there at the time. G: Was he interested in politics at all? H: Until he went to Houston [to the Democratic National Convention] in 1928 I
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 telegram, but did you get any response out of the White House or from Secretary Wirtz on this? H: What
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the U.S. G: I've seen that telegram, I think it's February 4 or 2. B: I don't know whether you've seen an article by Robert Elegant, published in Encounter magazine in London two years ago--I have a copy here, I'll show it to you--entitled "How to Lose
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of things in his office in one sense, and yet in another sense he delegated. He began to delegate more and more authority. F: Did you have a feeling that early that you had a star on the rise? C: Yes, I think beyond question. F: You were working like
Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ever do that, have an outside job picking up trash? J: He worked for President Evans and then he was the editor of what di.d they call that, the College Star? G: Yes. J: He was editor of that his senior year, I believe. But I really don't recall
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Cecil Evans; college years; garage apartment; secretary to Kleburg; college sports; Black Stars; White Stars; LBJ blackballed; 1928 Democratic National Convention; debate team; Cotulla; boarding
Oral history transcript, C.E. "Curley" Doyle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • represented what was known then as the White Stars--I didn't even know it was in existence--nominated a representative from the White Stars, and Lyndon got up and nominated someone from the Black Stars, which I didn't know was in existence but which
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ at college in San Marcos; clubs at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College (SWTSTC), including the White Stars; LBJ's parents; LBJ's early interest in politics; professors LBJ admired at SWTSTC, including
Oral history transcript, Merrell Blackman, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Did the Black Stars support the athletes, is that the way it worked? B: Yes . G: I gather the Council would also name the editor of the College Star and the Pedagog . B: I'm not sure about that, but I think that's right . I think that's right
  • Biographical information; SWTTC; contact with LBJ; Harris Blair debating club; Student Welfare Council; 1928 Democratic Convention; Black Stars; LBJ as Blackman's best man; LBJ's activities and family; President Evans; dating in San Marcos