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Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape II 2 (Nov. 13, 1968, Nov. 14, 1968) A: I felt this was one of those times when it did make a difference who was the American chief representative in this mission--in this case, Sofia. That, quite possible, if I had been
  • Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that you ought to get your fellow Texans to introduce the bill. If they want me to have my name on it, why, that ' II be fine, but it seems to me that you've got your men there." He said, "Well, of course, that's right. So LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- I -- 3 fourteen in January of 1943, which means that I met and had known and had gone through World War II with all the trials and tribulations of the war with Harry Truman and President
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --he was interested more in national affairs. P: Did this have to do with our entry into the beginning of World War II? B: No. P: This is too early. B: It had nothing to do with World War II. that time. You're right. We thought war was over
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • started looking up and dmvn this table, and he said--"top \{hite House aide," that was what he said, IITop White House aide. II He looked up and down the table and he says, "If I ever find that son-of-a-bitch top White House aide, boy, I'm going to have
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a short distance away, not very far away. You've got some of the biggest mansions in the world at Bar Harbor." "Well," I said, II we don't know any of those people. II LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Senate when you got back there? E: II I We ha.d a new President- -of course everybody was shocked at the assassination. The Southerners were saying tha.t they were glad that a Southerner did not do it. F: Did 1964 present you with any problems
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • down pre-World War II. It had been badly managed and administered, so for that reason a lot of people in Congress also had reservations about it. So I called in some people in the department and worked them over a while and the general counsel said
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Plan, that we must not cast our pearls before swine. Those things began to fit together, and what you got the veterans, the young officers, guys who had been officers in World War II, lots of them were district attorneys, city attorneys, you know
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HORNADAY -- I -- 3 Franklin Roosevelt, and several things along that line. remember it, I made the remark, II And as I Lyndon , I don't exactly agree that one of the important
Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Horton [?] Monday." He was a senior. him I was supposed to work with him. paper on the campus. II I went to O. D. and told He said, "Okay. We pick up So that's what we did; we had a stake and a sack just like you were picking cotton. G: Did LBJ
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • inclination at the outset was just to sort of play it by ear and see what they had in mind, and whether they were serious or not, because it really was not the kind of negotiation where you go in with a fi xed pos i t i on and say, II We 11, here's our
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • forced to drop out of school or lost the desire to go to , school, most of them because of financial situations, were placed in what we ca 11 ed res i dence centers. II II ~Je employed a 1ady tra i ned in the fundamentals of homemaking, usually
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Pygmalion, as it were, we probably contributed a few ideas that he adopted and did something with. B: K: B: When you say we ," you mean yourself, do you not? II I think you also were in on it. Well, in a slight sense, but you were the brains
Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ,:L supported President Johnson in a~d then go Mlead from there. was then from Henderson a.lct I More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh t..~e 1948 election,. County, Texas, that's where my fami ly Ii
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , was known a round here as "Dr. Strangegrant. II Because each time we presented a proposal to Shriver for his signature the answer was, "Well, what have you nuts got cooked up for me now? In which funny papers am I going to land now?" As I say, Shriver did
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into the service. H: Yes, I was a regular naval officer for 25 years and retired voluntarily in 1959. Mc: I would assume you served through the wars, World War 11-- H: Yes, I was in PT boats in World War II. I was at Pearl Harbor when the war started
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • believe, met and talked to John Connally. He said, "I would like to give some money to the Johnson campaign." And one of them said, "That is wonderful! You will be the first person who has made a contribution to this campaign. II This was a smart
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this meeting down in Austin for two days already and I \'las supposed to be there. "Get yoursel f on down here and 'Ne 111 show you what to do. II Well, I got in that little old Chevrolet and I drove all night long. Had to go by Lubbock to pick up some
Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to think about that. II And he had a certain place on his desk we'd put it, and as long as it stayed on that part of the desk, you knew he was still thinking about it. F: Is he pretty good himself at shuffling papers, getting things out of the way
Oral history transcript, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • with the American-Statesman, and I had a young son then so I was at home. I stayed home and didn't work. We lived rather a quiet life. Then, the World War II came along and Stuart joined the marine corps and went through Quantico. Then we were sent to Atlanta
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out of line for?" Now and ever since him, it's been, "Well, listen, show a little independence on your own part. stamp for anybody. II What are you Don't be a rubber This was an interesting period in our history and it hasn't been duplicated
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mind," and he said, "What is it? II I said, "00 we call you Mr. President or Lyndon?" he turned on me and never answered, but I got the message. And He really LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • largely political they were somewhat over their heads. I felt that had they been faced with the Russians on the plains of Germany they'd have given a very good account of themselves, but this was not World War II and it was not the preparations for World
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with it?" I do; there's only one hope: I said, "Well, unfortunately Muchmore says that superhuman action on your part and the organization could probably change it. take that. II So he said, '~ell, you've told me enough. people don't want me, I don't
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • paid teenagers in our neighborhood: "Well, we only pay them fifty cents." Luci's response was, "I would hope that's what you'd say, because that's what my friends get. II But not knm·ting how many hours had been involved, we gave her five dollars
Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Well, when President Johnson became president, I think he was somewhat suspicious of the military. In other words, he really had no military orientation in his past. He had served for a while, of course, in Horld War II, in the Navy, I believe
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that later I might like an appointment as federal judge . But two years or more later I went to Palm Beach, Florida, to see my son take off for overseas duty in World War II . He was a lieutenant in the Air Transport Comm-and . For our own protection I
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , "What did you hit him for?" are the law officers on these planes. Cause the co-pilots And I said, "I hit him because he said that Bobby Kennedy was a son-of-a-bitch. II I said, "If you want me to hit you, I'll do that, too." I bruised three
Oral history transcript, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , II (for (ilellon Bank N.A. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania s executor of the estate of R. Conrad Cooper) do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of A~erica all my rights
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by eighty-seven votes, I think it was, and they called him IILandslide Johnson. II With that memory tucked way back in there in my mind, I read with interest the statement by this election official or party official or Johnson organizational official [luis
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can recall, the circumstances under which you first met them. S: I can recall very clearly, the first time I met the Congressman was pre-World War II. In those days I was director of research at CBS, and any affiliation which was made
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is that World War I and World War II would have been different wars if they'd have had television coverage. You had, in those wars, more control over what the press could report. But this was the first war that television really went right into the battlefield