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Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • cent surtax that he really felt was needed to control inflation. Do you have any insights or recollections of his efforts here, the people he met with? R: It's not the kind of thing I worked with. Like I said, if I had the night reading list
  • The day and night of March 31, 1968; meeting with RFK; HHH's bid for the Presidency; MLK assassination; Fortas nomination; RFK assassination; 1968 Democratic National Convention; LBJ's night reading
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around to do much of anything. G: One of the things I wanted to ask you about today was night reading and what it represented in terms of his work day--memos, correspondence that he needed to read. J: Now I have one difficulty in that, in that I
  • wanting Mrs. Johnson to model herself after Eleanor Roosevelt; LBJ's office schedule; night reading; LBJ's morning bedroom routine, including contacting people, reading newspapers, and seeing a doctor; LBJ's evening routine after leaving the Oval Office
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • came to Alabama? P: My first remembrance of meeting her--I knew of her, knew who she was--she visited my daughters when we lived in Verbena, Alabama, and spent the night with us. We listened to the radio that night to some programs from Texas. I
Oral history transcript, William M. Blackburn, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • summarize for the President's night reading . M: What's the advantage to the firm in giving you experience like this? Is there an advantage? B: I really don't know . I doubt it because this firm in particular, and I guess you could say Dallas
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with the Vietnamese units that were involved. It could have been regional forces, popular forces; it could have been RD cadre or combinations thereof. Then we'd spend maybe an afternoon [or] a whole night with the American or Vietnamese units we were targeting
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 9 (IX), 7/14/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • )--and we'd all know--we're talking about the year 1968, not all the years he was in Congress. And I won't go into what a dramatic and effective leader he was. I don't think there's ever been one like him. G: Tell me about the night reading. What did
  • Rather rejoining LBJ's staff at the end of his presidency; Rather's nieces attending school in Washington, D.C.; LBJ's decision to retire from politics; the slower pace of office work at the White House and LBJ's daily schedule; night reading
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • some kind of meeting or something that was going on . At night we frequently were in our offices . didn't work half as much overtime as the President did . I He would frequently go back up to Congressman Kleberg's office and work until 10 or 11
  • , required very little sleep, thought movies were a waste of time; LBJ tended to all the duties Congressman Kleberg neglected: veterans' pensions, etc.; attending night sessions of Congress; the Texas Club; LBJ dating in Washington; no hobbies; no reading
Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • a massage on the plane in or out to wherever we were going. It relaxed him. G: Can you characterize-- M: We gave him one every night, you know, while he was doing his night reading at the White House. G: How was--describe that scene. Would he lay
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It's six o'clock and we worked late last night." "Well, you read the Washington Post and you call me back." He says, He said, I said, "Mr. President, it's Sunday and the Washington Post is very, very big. you give me a clue and then I'll call you
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was current at the time, he would talk about. Actually, that particular night, as on subsequent nights, he was going through his IInight reading," as he called it, and occasionally he would hand me some letter to read or something. Of course, if there were
  • How Hoyt met LBJ; Hoyt’s role as domestic director of the Office of War Information; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s persuasive techniques; staying the night at the White House visiting with LBJ; LBJ’s public relations; 1960 election; Hoyt’s appointment
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in for the President's night reading. Of course, these FBI full field examinations were primarily complete reports on people who were being considered for appointments to jobs. You had other FBI reports on national situations or possible subversive groups or what have
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • school. The best I could figure out, he was about four years old. At that time he could already do a lot of spelling. He could not read according to my memory of what Mrs. Johnson said. But he could spell almost anything that he would hear. She
  • Details of visit with Dorothy Territo and Rebekah Johnson (LBJ’s mother) in 1958; topics discussed include: LBJ’s learning to read and beginning school at age 4; first teacher, Kate Deadrich Looney; LBJ’s decision to go to college; relationship
Oral history transcript, Dorris Powell, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the funeral and was heartbroken, because during this time, from time to time, she would give me books to read. She read them to see that it was the kind of literature that I should read. I remember some of those books. Eleanor Meade wrote some books like Girls
Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • was then in existence across the street from the Driskill, an all-night restaurant, and had scrambled eggs and bacon about three o'clock in the morning, I assume. P: What was your reading of the election before the polls closed? What was the final feeling between
Oral history transcript, Myer Feldman, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as opposed-- F: Almost all day, and all night. The committee would ask questions during the day based on suggestions I made, and then the testimony would be typed. It would be handed to me shortly after the hearing adjourned. I'd go over the testimony
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 4 (IV), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to make this speech at Johns Hopkins University tomorrow night. It's embargoed, you can't use this, but I want to read you some if you'll tell me what you think." So he read the speech to us. He read us the first few paragraphs of it, standing
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh What can I do for you?" The President insisted on that sort of thing. I think the staffing operation kept that in mind--the importance, the indispensability of the congressman and the senator. F: How did you prepare his night reading
  • speeches; election day; staff schedules and duties; the appointments secretary’s power; night reading; Walt Rostow; diplomatic luncheons; speechwriting for LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Mrs . Johnson and my wife and the President reached the point where he was detailing how he studied at night, he was associating himself with those people at West, finding a common point of interest . He detailed how at night after they had dinner why
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 3 (III), 5/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • into a night reading file. Then the information items also were broken down into immediate and things that could go into the night reading file. So at the end of the day, if it was your turn to work that night, you would be left with the following: the diary
Oral history transcript, Leonard M. Elstad, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : Oh yes, it's a greater educational handicap. Now a blind person can go to a hearing college with a reader, but a deaf student has trouble going to a hearing college, because he can't read lips that well. is an art, and some have it and some don't
  • History of Gallaudet College; difficulties of English language for deaf children; drawbacks of lip reading; remedial work; connection with HEW; interest of Homer Eloise Thornberry; oralism and manualism; LBJ's attendance at graduation ceremony
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • [James] Meredith into the University of Mississippi, Walker appeared on the campus and was, from the reports we got down there, extremely inflammatory, and was picked up one night--the second night of rioting, I think, I can't remember which. But in any
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in Texas history, nothing she didn't know. She knew One of the funniest things that happened, we had Wilton Woods, whom you read about. We called him Noisy. He never talked. Her pet peeve was somebody coming in late. toeing, late. She had already
Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 3 (III), 8/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to Washington, and Washington agreed that I could do that, that I should do it. Wilson said that what he would like to do would be for me to really stand by at any moment day and night so that he could be in touch with me or inform me, so that I could keep
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was working on that. [Robert] Solow is then a young professor, just a hot-shot MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] guy that Eckstein brought along and so was Lester Thurow. He's listed--he was the rapporteur of the group whether he was the night we
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the Attorney General had some ideas is my recollection. Nick read from this memo, basically, that I had prepared. He knew what was in it and went through this reorganization. I mean, blood left the Vice President's face. It was the end of his role in civil
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • read. And my husband never forgot He'd keep it all right up here. He took about five dailies and he never went to sleep at night that he hadn't read everyone of them. M: So when they got together, they would talk about politics. F: Oh yes
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • reading practice. M: Did you give a lot of material to him to read? G: Yes. I was in that box almost every day. What was her name--the secretary that used to put the night reading together, a very attractive woman? M: Mary Rather? [Juanita Roberts
Oral history transcript, Ebba Jansen and Alvin J. Jansen, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that? J: T-I-E-R-N-E-Y .. P: Now you were telling me you had some trouble, but not very much until you reached Arizona and the desert. J: Yes. VJe parked at Needl es, and it was 112 ~ [degrees] in Needl es· that afternoon. During the night it got
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 2 (II), 10/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would go home and still have night reading. take home. MG: He's always had night reading to I don't see how he could have been any healthier. Now, the [John] Kennedy-[Irving] Ives labor bill came up that year. Let me get you to just talk about LBJ's
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • night or only on specific invitation, and I don't think anybody else was quite sure either. Rayburn left it vague. Tiger Teague told me once, "I' ve been baffled because every now and then he'll stop me and say, 'Why don't you come down and have
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McPherson -- VII -- 11 at night and then come back and dictate to her. Poor woman. Reedy was of that 10 per cent--where I think Reedy would not read so well today would be on things like
Oral history transcript, Loyd Hackler, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . reading. He ended up at nights, you've heard about all the night My impression was that, for instance, there was some friction between Califano and some of the cabinet people because they sort of looked at Joe as maybe getting between them
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of a research institute, ought to anticipate. G: Was this the Mershon--? R: Mershon Center for Education in National Security at Ohio State University. And, sometime in the summer or early fall of 1967, I counted or read that there were, as I recall
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was Wayne Morse. At the end of the day Pearson called me and said, "Didn't you read my column this morning?" I said, "Yes, I read it." He said, "Didn't you appreciate it?" I said, "Well, yes. But it really wasn't true. It was Morse that did that." He said
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • across the aisle from LBJ. I guess it was wintertime. He had his hat and coat on, hat tilted back, late at night--it was after midnight I think. As we were flying from Andrews, about a twelve-minute flight, he was reading that morning's Washington Post
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • course in economics that anyone could ever have, and that was from the Council of Economic Advisers. They had prepared papers; they had done a big study of steel the year before. I used to read that stuff at night, or early in the morning. But most of all
Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 1 (I), 9/24/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . every night. and going t:l Reading--going to bed with a "Who Done It" Reading the same sentence on page 13 every night sleep. Weld get to bed apout 3--this is when we were on t:.'-le trail. Mr . Johnson did this every night. Mary Rather and Dorot
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 2 (II), 4/6/1983-4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Lyndon Johnson would have fired me if he had known that. But I missed the entire speech and sneaked out for two hours. My friends, the agents, covered for me. So I have no idea what went on that night. G: How about the Ladies Garment Workers Union
Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • went a little later. Anyway, he pulled out of law school. I think he pulled out to get married; I believe that's the secret. Anyway, I went to night law school and finished one year at Georgetown. Then the following summer--Mr. Johnson in the meantime
Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • President Johnson and we felt early on that we should meet with him and talk with him. As I recall we went over as a whole commission to talk with him one night and--I say "one night" because it was about, as I recall, 5:30 or some such thing