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Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of supporters from my bureau--accountants and the heads of various geographical areas and so on--Mr. Rooney says, "Is this one of the ones that's going to be cut?" And I said, "Sir?" And he says, "Is this one of the ones that you're going to cut back?" And I
Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , 1969 . INTERVIEWEE: GERALD W. SIEGEL . · T. H. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Mr. Siegel's office, Washington, D. C. PLACE: Tape l of l B: Sir, we had gone in time up to about. 1960. We have covered legislative matters when you were on the Senator's .staff
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • commitments. aid. It really was military aid but we called it foreign The Congress then wanted to spend money at home instead of overseas. Now, 90 per cent of the money that we spent for foreign aid was really spent here manufacturing our stuff
Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Mar ch 11 , 196 9 B: This is the interview with Eugene Patterson. Sir, let me summarize your career here, subject to additions and corrections. Born in Valdesta, Georgia in 1923; B.A. from the University of Georgia; army service in World War II
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and, as I said earlier to you, I don't recall if that's during the vice presidency, but around that period of time. G: Conceivably, the presidency or the vice presidency. C: Yes, G: sir. Did Johnson try to retain some of his prerogatives as majority
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh MULHOLLfu~ Let's begin simply by identifying you, sir. You are James J. Rowley, Director of the United States Secret Service, and you have held this position as director since 1961. R
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Boyd -- I -- 2 county [Collin County] is my home, it's been the home of my family since 1853 on both sides of the family. So I've always had
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • , three of which were Comal, Blanco, and Hays. President's family at that time. Blanco was the home of the Hays, of course, had Southwest State Teachers College at which the President was then a student. I met Nr. Sam Johnson, the President's father
Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in that campaign, but no more than any number of other law students to whom the young candidate appealed. F: Before we get into that, let's finish your brief account of your career. H: I went home from the University to practice law in my hometown of Hempstead
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • always felt that my politics were in a sense a carrying-out of the kind of attitude that he instilled in me toward human beings. G: Right. All right, sir, let's get down to a specific case then. your opposition to official policy in Vietnam evolve over
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • away from home on any extended trip or for any extended period and I was stationed down in Augusta, Georgia, training to be a machine gunner. I found to my amazement that there were a lot of other fellows down there, and I had no idea that that many
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was that you would send a handbill?" I ..said, "Yes, sir·. 11 ''Well then, why didn'tyou send a handbill? 11 . said,, 11 Well, I thought-.;.•• He said, I 1 ll tell you again. 11 I You're. ·not supposed to be thinking.•· You do what we have agreed to do
Oral history transcript, Samuel A. Adams, interview 1 (I), 9/20/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • hundred forty thousand, is that correct, General?" And General DePuy said yes. He said, "You've killed eighty thousand of them according to your statistics, is that correct?" "Yes, sir, that's correct." "Now, General, you have been in combat," which
Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with his bald head, and he had little clinch glasses on his nose. He took those off, looked at me and said, "I understand you want to go to school and work on your graduate area." I said, "Yes, sir." He said, "What are you interested in?" I said, "Well, I
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 1 (I), 9/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- I -- 5 G: So was your primary responsibility that of Alabama, looking after the home state political needs? C: Primarily. Of course that included Alabama--what I'm going to call casework, what I'm going to call Alabama projects. If we had
Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is votes," and "What's important in this country is money," and "You ain't winning' you ain't got none of that, so let's go back home and get busy." He said, "You're up here hollering and screaming, but you haven't done your homework." I remember very
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • primarily? Me: Yes. Mu: Once the assassination of President Kennedy occurred and Mr. Johnson was suddenly President, how quickly did he contact you? Me: He contacted me at home the next morning. President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday around 1
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 1 (I), 2/28/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1976 INTERVIEWEE: J. R. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Major Parten's home in Madisonville, Texas PARTEi'~ Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, Major, to that first little visit where Jimmy Allred called you in to meet Lyndon Johnson. You were
Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • good, and he was having these pains. What was happening was I would ride home from the Senate with him, and then he would pick me up in the morning on the way to work. Then he would call me three or four times during the night to see that I was thinking
  • LBJ's 1955 heart attack at George Brown's home and his health before the heart attack; LBJ's recovery from the heart attack; why LBJ was an effective Senate majority leader; LBJ's relationships with President Dwight Eisenhower and Sam Rayburn
Oral history transcript, Paul Bolton and Dolly Bolton, interview 2 (II), 4/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : April 8, 1981 INTERVIEWEE : PAUL BOLTON [with occasional comments by Dolly Bolton] INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Bolton's home, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1 G: Mr . Bolton, let's start today with some of the events in Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of a government. G: What were your relations with the press like? Did you know any reporters? S: Oh, yes. They obviously sought me out, and from time to time they used to walk home with me, which was my only free time to talk to them. [Laughter] Well, like any
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to his retirement. It could broaden his own experience and enhance his value to the department .. I think that it is a tough job for a young man, as I was, with young children, because you're never home. Never. Traveling a lot. I felt there were
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , real late nights. In those early days of NYA, Lyndon was the last man out of the office. When we were all walking out to go home, and generally we pretty much quit together, Lyndon was the one that pulled the door to behind us. He was not the type
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • over to Korea. He went He was the commander in Korea and I was his chief of staff in the Eighth Army. Then I commanded the Forty-fifth Division Infantry, and that was sent home, so they gave me the Twenty-fourth Division. I stayed in Korea
Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • home on the Ranch, but I had never seen this person in person. He did impress me. He just came across with all the vitality, just living energy, great force. G: What did he say? W: Well, I was young, and I guess I was kind of a pretty girl
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Winters -- IV -- 5 W: Yes. G: I see. Then on the second of July was when LBJ had his first heart attack, in 1955, at George Brown's home out
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . I came from a family of coal miners. My father was a coal miner and is retired; he is living now as a retired coal miner. r got out of high school in 1931. F: Where was this? M: At Rock Springs, Wyoming, which is my home town. things
Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; at that time it was just the old Faulk home--we had living with us a wonderful old couple, Mr. and Mrs. John Talley [?], who were both Methodists in our church. They were not on hard times, but relatively hard times, and they needed family. So Mama moved them
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Academy. I went to war in World War II as a rifle company commander, in Europe, [was] wounded, back into the fight, and then home. [I] came home with the idea of going to Japan, and this was sort of forestalled by the atomic bomb. So although we were ready
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE 4frl) February 14, 1969 This is the interview with Orville Freeman. Sir, you've been in one way or another in Democratic politics since the 1940 1 s. in~olved Do you recall when you firsr met Lyndon Johnson? F
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the office space in the White House. We handle the rest of the White House including the living quarters of the First Family. F: Are the tours under your direction? H: Yes, sir. F: Haven't you changed policy on the tours? H: We have, with Mrs
Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a Rhodes Scholarship and spent the years 1947 to 1949 in Lord Florey, then Sir Howard Florey's, Laboratories at the Sir William Dunn[?] School of Pathology in Oxford. And [I earned] a research degree, a Bachelor of Science degree there. I came back
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1972 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES R. JONES INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Jones' home, Tulsa, Oklahoma Tape 1 of 1 F: Just to get this started, let's get specific for a minute. Do you remember the article that Townsend Hoopes did that made
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Washington. I remember one incident that I might just interject, my wife and I had been in Washington just a few weeks, I would say that it was early in 1941, and we were invited to Sunday noon lunch or dinner at the home of some Alabamians, who were
Oral history transcript, Daniel Boone Porter, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • with government. I don't believe that any of us used that too much as a wedge. We felt that it was self-evident that that was true, and that if they didn't accept our advice that we would go home. I don't doubt but what some of them would have wished that we would
Oral history transcript, Darrell Royal, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . As soon as this is over, let’s go right straight to the plane and get on back to Texas.” And I said, “Sure, sure. Yes, sir.” You know, he stayed and visited with those farmers in Hudson, Wisconsin--he must have stayed an hour-and-a-half. Stood around
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • pilot group. So I went back to Washington, got a few days leave over the weekend, and told Nellie. By that time we had had our daughter Kathleen. I gave up the apartment, arranged to get a friend of mine to drive Nellie and the baby home, and went back
  • President Roosevelt calling congressmen out of military service during World War II; Mildred Moody; Connally's naval career; Daniel Moody; Alvin Wirtz; the Johnsons' business properties in Austin in the 1940's; Hardy Hollers; the Dillman Street home
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • into the Academy in larger numbers? And getting some Negroes on the faculty?" I said, "Yes, sir." And he went on with this man, and I came back home with my wife. We were in the car, I told her what he had said, And she says, "Shoot, he isn't going to remember
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1981 INTERVIEHEE: GENERAL SAMUEL T. HILLIAMS INTERVIEWER: TED GITTINGER PLACE: General Williams l home in San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 2 G: All right, General Williams, despite the increase in terrorist activities in 1959 and 1960, did you see
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXXI -- 2 He talked to his usual constituency like the Farm Home Administration about the programs on REA [Rural Electrification Administration