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Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be president of the [city] council with a promise of being governor, to withdraw. And [Abraham] Beame was a candi- date for mayor on the Democratic ticket, whom we couldn't take because while in the post when he was there he did very well, but as far

Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh SYMINGTON -- II -- 8 concern, to put it mildly, in HEW, from Wilbur Cohen down, or you might say from [Abraham] Ribicoff, [Anthony] Celebreeze, and [John] Gardner, [who] were the three fellows who had it. Kennedy left before Gardner

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Krim; political discussions at the Ranch; the amphicar; Ranch staff loyalty; LBJ gallstone attacks; LBJ avoiding the press and his need for privacy among friends; Jesse Kellam; White House dinner for President’s Club members; Abe Beame; William

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

and would say, and he did it so well. And we were just all--we were all beaming at the newspaper reports and the feeling among all the folks who went. 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 3 (III), 5/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, at that time it was more of a teachers' college than it is now. Everything was beamed toward making teachers out of the kids. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the class--those grown, Mexican people went in and sat down in the seats where they used to sit, and he went in there and talked to them a little bit from the desk, and they were very proud, I can tell you. They were beaming to have the President come and do

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

system, I should think our laser beam technology and the over-the-horizon radar technology. We've developed an awful lot of--numerous different types of ordnance, for instance, of shells and air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles which are just very

Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

as we could get together. He came charging up there. He had just come from the White House, where the President had told him he wanted him to go to Germany. He was just beaming, and he was making his plans and wanting advice about how to do

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

head of the whole national housing authority, standing in front of a plaque pointing it out, and Lyndon beaming from ear to ear that this was the first--or was it the first?--it was certainly one of the first-G: It was, I think. J: --finished

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 13 (XIII), 9/2/1979-9/3/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

just beam. It was obvious though that he was carrying the problems of the co-op on his shoulders, he and the Senator both, and were unhappy and frustrated about them. The Texas Club and the Texas Exes and all of my little gatherings of women were a part

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

check. [June 30, 1966] K: But he was very pleased about moving him in. Who was there at this time? Was it [John] McCone at the time of the Dominican [Crisis]? G: I think so, yes. K: Yes. G: Now in addition, New York politics came up. Abe Beame

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

I heard incidentally over a little portable radio, which was being beamed in from Puerto Rico. We couldn't believe our ears when we heard it, sitting in the living room of our retreat in the Virgin Islands. F: I bet you felt like you were

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 29 (XXIX), 3/19/1982-3/20/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, an English library they stained the beams a dark, sort of walnut color, and then the walls--there was a sort of a wainscoting and paneling and a lot of bookcases, but not very--well, at any rate, it made the room very dark, and to my feeling, dismal. So I

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

in it that neither one of us could resist. For once her lack of wanting for things manifested itself, and we got it and Lyndon just beamed at both of us. He was very proud. It was a cool spring; it turned out to be a very useful purchase. She got to go to lots

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

Oral history transcript, Solis Horwitz, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Humphrey. Hubert just started beaming from ear to ear. Of course, this was the most remarkable thing, because this was not only funny on the part of the southerners. They of course didn't want an FEPC on them. They wanted to stymie the amendment

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Churchill made this speech beamed to the French people, that famous one starting off

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

you would call it a statue, or what? S: Well. these I think were bottles that we used during. I believe, the Johnson-Kennedy campaign, by Jim Beam the liquor manufacturer. It has the donkey and the elephant. M: They stand about a foot high, and he

Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

bring it in from Denver." If you turn the television set on, what was on television was a Denver station being beamed into Cheyenne. You just couldn't get anything in Cheyenne. Of course the party structure had very little money. money they had, we

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

which made us come back onto the real beam. I grew very fond of her. M: You need someone like that. P: You do, and it was a very good lesson to me, a very good lesson to me, because I recognize that on so many of these commissions we talk

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson and Marie Wilson, interview 2 (II), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[Alaska to another state]. ~eant They it to allow those who were confined in the States to go back to Alaska when they had a facility built. But the right wing had inter~ preted this as meaning anybody who was declared mentally off the beam could

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with that particular event. It was such a show of affection. That happened many times between us later, but that was the first time. Jack was beaming, he was very pleased because Jack had apparently told him how much I had done toward raising the 22 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

this shower." We came over, and he said, "Now let me turn this thing on." And he turned this thing on, and I must say that water came out of the shower head like a laser beam. That was really powerful. He said, "There's nothing like getting in here for one

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 27 (XXVII), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

regional meetings. First, a closed-circuit television three-hour, in-depth communication setup beamed out to twenty or twenty-one major areas of the country. We took the loyal opposition on television. We had some initial success and then had the door

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sessions in it, big braces being put up and supporting beams and things, finally reached the point where the Senate had to move out of it, to finish the construction. They moved into the Old Supreme Court chamber, and some very interesting sessions were

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

years old then. He had a little white goatee and snowy white hair and always dressed just as neat--he was always very precise in his clothes. But he came one day just absolutely beaming with joy. He had heard from the best friend he ever had in the world

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

we sent over had been approved. The people around the table beamed, and then I went on to explain that this was subject, of course, to the communities deciding that these were the programs they wanted and initiating proposals for them. The reaction

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

program. We don't want you to really do a lot of talking about this until I've got a chance to put it through myself. will work it out. Is that satisfactory?" But that's the way we And of course Scranton, just beaming, walked out of there about three

Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

out for him for me, my friend." She just beamed. That was a very sweet thing to do. 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, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

swarmed over it like ants all night long. It took many, many months, it took years, before they finally dropped that, and it took a smart bomb, one of those that's guided by laser beam, before they ever dropped it. G: My information

Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Zephyr Wright, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the best presidents welve ever had, and that he had done more for us than any other president. would just beam when I would tell him. I just can't remember the exact words of things that people would tell me to tell him, but there were quite a few times

Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

the night before, and he was still in bed. He just woke up, I guess. So I went up to his bedroom, and he was so happy to see me. He just was beaming with happiness that I 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon

Oral history transcript, Bess Whitehead Scott, interview 1 (I), 3/31/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

. Lyndon just beamed when I read it to him. He particularly got a laugh over the picture you gave of his reading about Senator Joseph Bailey. The Texas sunshine has indeed been a good tonic for him. Thank you for taking time to write. It is good to have

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 18 (XVIII), 9/26/1980-9/27/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Arkansas right down to Texas, and believe me, there were plenty. My Aunt Effie sat there beaming from ear to ear and just soaking it all up, because she loved a good conversation. The Civil War was right back where her ancestors had played a part, and she

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

done it the first twenty-four hours of the first forty-eight. But every day Willis would tell me with a mounting beam, smile, he said, "Every day is a victory. Every day that he lives and improves, and is improving, means that he is going to come back