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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

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

there had been no previous maneuvering in that direction. H: No. F: Nothing to give you any lead. H: No. F: Did you think that the threatened liberal revolt was serious or do you From all I read and heard there was none. It came on rather suddenly

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a resolution was read one morning by the reading clerk who had this big old voice, you could hear him all over Austin almost, reading without the benefit of a public address system. And he said: r~e it resolved that tonight after the House adjourns

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 1 (I), 10/6/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

or drink anything except the problems he has as majority leader. He won't relax." That was on a Friday night. On Sunday morning we picked up the paper and read that over the \'Jeekend he had had his heart attack. F: Did'Mr. Truman ever express himself

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

wanted to make you friendly as possible. Yes, you get an intimation of . . . . F: And did he read you? B: Well, I was impressed with him. F: No, I mean did he read your copy? Did you get an idea that when I didn't agree with him-- you wrote

Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

out your transfer. You go down and start shooting because we've got these big moon shots coming up," or sun shots or something. So this began a series of commuting between Canaveral for shoot; fly back to Washington that night with the raw film

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

vote, finally. Did Johnson ever show his hand on that particularly? G: No, but I'll tell you something I don't think I've ever told publicly. Price Daniel came to me one night in the middle of the debate over whether to censure Joe or not, and he said

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

objects would be hauled through the streets at nights, and things of this kind. F: It was difficult to gauge-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to be just scientific satellites and that's the way ours was planned, with the Vanguard. So he had all these witnesses come, and I remember one day we met from about nine in the morning till nine at night interviewing all these people and getting answers

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, been FDR's secretary. She We drove through the night, and we expected that when we arrived, because it was quite late, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the language of the draft. Jerry Siegel, as a matter of fact, would read a certain portion of it, and then there would be some discussion and we would go on in that fashion. One of the curious and little personal asides was that in that early draft

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

o'clock in the afternoon. body back here that night. As you know, they brought his President Johnson--of course he immediately became President--called me quite early, somewhere between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, the very next morning

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to go back and read his speeches about what would happen, and everything they predicted has happened. The problem of most liberals in America is that they don't pay any attention to history. They never LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the Southern opposition to civil rights legislation in opposition to what a lot of people call "progress" and that was an obstacle. And he recognized those things. F: He knew it well. I know you can't read another man's mind altogether, but do you get

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and McGeorge Bundy, and there was Ross Gilpatric, and McNamara, and several others on the staff of the White House in the Office of Science and Technology and the Defense Department. We had been to the White House on Wednesday night to a reception and had

Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and forth on the cables and communication networks than the appointment of a freshman senator. In any event, I didn't learn of my appointment [until]-- F: How did you receive the message? K: Well, I first heard of it by reading it in the army newspaper

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

maintain any kind of productivity. hours a day at the office. I spend from eleven to twelve I usually put in a six-day week. also a fair amount of weekend and night reading. ing return point to which I am quite sensitive. There is There is a diminish

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Dick Gregory was out there; in fact, I think I helped get him out of jail not too long ago. He'll never know that, but-- These poor Indians had a treaty that, as far as I am concerned, on any fair reading was designed to give them rights to fish

Oral history transcript, Donald C. Cook, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, vigorous years--in which I know he was working night and day, Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, . nothing stood in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Presidential candidate, but I really never expected it, read Lyndon Johnson, I thought that he'd want someone that was really very close to him . As I I thought he'd want another Senator because Lyndon Johnson is essentially a legislator, and I felt that he

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Jack Valenti did one of the most courageous things I ever saw but the President, not being literary, he never got it. Jack was reading Macaulay at the Ranch one weekend, and he read to the President a passage on the courtiers around Charles I and how

Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

"Well, how would you like to pick up the Washington paper tomorrow and read that Lyndon Johnson had died in the home of his best friend?" And his face got sort of white, and he went over to the telephone, a wall phone, and tried to get a doctor

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with, and a rationale for those things that ACDA does. M: Certainly appropriations is a good reading of, I think, Congress' reception of the idea of arms control and the benefit of it. How do you feel that they have received this? D: I think that it's almost like

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the first announcements President Kennedy made after held been elected to the presidency--and this is in December of 1960--was that he was going to make the Vice President the head of his space advisory council, or something of that kind. Well, when we read