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Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have done. G: Because I thought I Walter said no, that's what Johnson never told me that, but I sensed it. I gather that Walter could read Johnson as well as anyone, in terms of what he really wanted and what ought to be done. H: It really
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The park was the Blue and Gray, and the hotel the Lee-Grant. I was always an intensely political animal and so was my father, who was a Rumanian immigrant who could scarcely read and write. But the way I met Dick Russell was as follows: I was probably
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and that $10 a day wasn't hay back in those days of depression. Anyway, Lyndon was the same age. everything I read and heard about him I liked. I didn't know him then but And certainly we had a common bond being young and in politics and trying to get
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • idea. They'd come down about five o'clock; we'd eat dinner and have that [talk] and he'd fly back that same night. They had this little air force jet, takes about thirty minutes to get back up there. T: All this suggests that you had a fairly close
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • approach. I think that was an extremely important point because, at that time, I had much advice from all over that he couldn't possibly return to the active life of majority leader, which he worked at, as you well know, morning, noon and night. So I guess
Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , because that was about when the really strong dissent was beginning here in this country and was getting in the papers. The troops were reading this. They were hearing about it back home; and they were just wondering how much support they had back here
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the train in Fort Worth, and I caught the railroad train and rode all Austin about five-thirty in the morning. it. I believe it was a Katy. ~ight and got into The Night Owl they called And I took a taxi, which cost fifteen cents, to take me from
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and didn't get it, people would read it as no support for the war, and no leadership. [J. Ward] Keener, who was then the head of the [B.F.] Goodrich [Company]--and [William Beverly] Bev Murphy [who] was the head of Campbell's Soup said they were for a tax
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the Fort Worth Club. I wrote my story, and about three o'clock in the morning I got a phone call, and it was from Lyndon Johnson. And he said, "I'm down in the lobby. read the Dallas News and I want to thank you." I've just I said, "For what?" He
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • read this by the time he and I met in the wee hours of that morning concerning my continuance. But it was the basic document that, once I stayed aboard, we tried to follow. G: The memo was submitted before you had your meeting with him, is that right
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • argument to the President, or if I laid out his argument, I'd call him up and read what I had written to him. And whenever they felt strongly enough, the President would see them, or I'd suggest that he see him. If there were any exceptions at all
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , because some of the material which is actually read is put in small type because it is printed. So we had to devise a ruler of our own with which we could count the lines of one kind of type and count other lines in another kind of type, and equate them
Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • animal. He wanted to do so much, and there were only certain bounds that he could move in. I think for a man with his background as Senate Majority Leader, the job was too confining. Although I didn't personally experience his Senate days, I had read
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that took place several years after we were married. We were down at White Sulphur Springs. We got in the car and drove all the way back to Washington at some ridiculous hour of the night, as I recall, because Lyndon--I just can't quite express it, and so I
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • don't know when in the late fifties, 1957/58/59, I had traveled out west with Nixon, and late one night at the Denver airport there weren't but four or five reporters with him and he invited us into one of the airport rooms while we waited for the plane
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And I was with him at the head table when he spoke in Birmingham, and I believe carried him back to the airport that night, along with one other person. That was a short time before I ran for governor in 1958. But this was before 1956, because I
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Desautels -- I -- 5 he should request of them. Then Monday night I'd prepare that, and if he had left the office I'd take it up to his night reading table in the Mansion. You
Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • , very much on the level with his students. EG: Was he humorous? LH: We always looked forward to that class. discussing the Mutt and Jeff cartoons. He began his classes by I am sorry to say that I never read anything but Mutt and Jeff in the funny
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 2 (II), 2/4/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around it. You see that Then the first person that's buried in there was the founder of Baylor University, [LBJ's] grandfather. It's a most interesting thing, and people just read those epitaphs on the monuments. that; I did myself. They spend a lot
  • ; reading the Congressional Record.
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • o'clock in the morning, and he required reading of the morning newspaper before you could go into his class. If he called on you. you had to name the topic. then he would call on someone else and ask how that was affecting America or how it would
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the rescue organization out by setting a real skillful ambush for them. We had very, very poor success in conducting ambushes. G: Now, this is basically in l962. P: Yes, it was. G: And yet, I have read several accounts, including communist sources, which
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • during the day and then at night when he retires the staff goes to work on the next day. get any sleep! So they never But we took off and Air Force One had not been airborne more than--oh, I would imagine--about an hour when I got a summons from
  • when talking to foreign dignitaries; LBJ’s ability to read or hear vast amounts of information and retain it; LBJ’s treatment of staff; Food for Peace and giving wheat to India while negotiating for agricultural reform; B.K. Nehru; how LBJ hid his true
Oral history transcript, Virginia Wilke English, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Not where I ever was with him, no. In fact, we went one night to the Folies Bergère and he didn't like it. I that were with him. group. I think it was Sam Plyler and The whole group was there; we all went as a But I think that the three of us left
Oral history transcript, Bailey Sheppard, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on it. And that night he called me in Baltimore and said, "Your papers are on the "'lay to Holabird. You can pick them up in the morning and report"--somewhere there in Maryland, I've forgotten where--"and be out of the army tomorrow." So that was the contact I had
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • all night long, and we'd, oh, three or four in the morning gather downstairs and have breakfast. The dining room was open, you know, all night long. He would use what he had to great advantage. He knew the arts of 3 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Daniel Garcia, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • back and forth with him. He was the janitor of the school. TG: I heard stories that he also tried to teach the janitor to read English? DG: I don't doubt it, because he did talk many times with him. And we knew that the old man Tomás Coronado didn't
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the interior. I read the correspondence between the two men, and I read it and reread it and reread it and reread it, and I never found what 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • assistant and Lyndon was in on the same thing. Lyndon was interested in that sort of thing. F: W: This was kind of a luncheon debating society, in a sense? A dinner--I mean a night thing. great went. It was a night thing, and some of the Don't ever
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • real and some of them perhaps imagined, I don't know quite where the line was. But at any rate, her eyesight was poor by this time and her reading limited. Sometime along about here I found out about, and secured for her, these records from the Library
  • Youth Administration; LBJ's work in the 10th District in the fall of 1943; LBJ's efforts to help individuals in his role as congressman; KTBC's affiliation with Columbia and capability to broadcast at night; losing office staff to the military; staying
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • by to that city. One can drive an hour away and be skiing. One can literally drive up on a Friday afternoon in midsummer and have an exciting mountain climb and be back early enough in the night to have one's own bath and sleep in one's own bed. As an active
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to pass out cards for a young candidate at a political rally there in Smithville; that candidate was Lyndon Johnson. Cliff Carter met Lyndon Johnson that night. He became so deeply impressed with the man that he devoted much of the remainder of his life
Oral history transcript, Roswell L. Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • read to the President up in Hyannis, it had been also read and I understood approved by Rusk, and I was told that the intention was to run down Max Taylor, that General [Victor] Krulak was going to get hold of Taylor. So my reaction
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going on, as important as it would be, he always insisted on that. He'd take this leather envelope and put it alongside of his bed, I'm told, of course I wasn't there, and then he would read these things. He would put "OK, LBJ," or "See me," or "Walter
  • Bryant's work on the Empire Ordnance investigation; Don Cook's work in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the preparedness subcommittee; Bryant's meetings with LBJ; LBJ's night reading; the preparedness subcommittee's work related
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . INTERVIEWER: T. H. BAKER February 5, 1969 B. This is the interview with J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. Sir, let me read an outline of your career subject to corrections and additions. You were born in 1898 in Charlottesville, served in World War II
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would make the offer of the vice presidency to Senator Johnson, and two, that Senator Johnson would accept it? M: Let me tell you my association with that. The balloting ended at mid- night, and we got all of our workers together. In a very
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 4 (IV), 2/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] the Shah and his new wife, and Mrs. Johnson. We, of course, learned a lot about the problems that have existed in Cyprus and Turkey. In Turkey I distinctly remember how they teach soldiers how to read and write. Apparently some of them can join the army
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • professional fashion. Whereas we were just sort of the good guys of America. had, I think, one delegation the night before the roll call. the devil was it? Kansas, I think. We What We had it by one vote, and went to bed on it, and woke up and one vote had
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • side of the street was totally wrecked, the other side wasn't touched. G: Anything on the Kennedy assassination? R: You mean Bobby? G: Yes. R: The main thing I remember, I'd gone to bed early that night and Sam Houston called me. He was watching
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and as you can see from this memo, the night before we worked out the jurisdictional issues about how to split this up. We would prepare a brief TV clip so the President could read a brief statement--two minutes--what today we'd call a sound bite basically
Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ] spent three days in that campaigning and by the last day, I had a very rough throat, got to where I could hardly speak, and I came home on Saturday night, went to bed. no better; in fact, if anything, I was worse. The next morning I was So my wife