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Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and interest relationship there. Dick, I recall, was sent out to Pittsburgh to catch Dr. 0~~ke~ between planes, and they had a very brief conversation around the idea of forming some sort of committee. Then Dick got involved in other efforts and he asked me
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • as a standard before. And I think the biggest thing was getting people to put it into effect on their own and believing that in some way or another they were connected with the effort. For example, the telephone call which interrupted us a few minutes ago
Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was practicing law, I became very interested in Democratic Party politics. In 1948 I became especially interested in supporting Lyndon Johnson for the United States Senate. (blank tape at this point: pause for telephone call) Of course, I was aligned
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or five members that were listening to the conversation. I called her and said, "You've got to repudiate this. It's a humiliation. You have to admit that this fellow's gone haywire but keep the blame on his defection; his default is a better word." His
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • sheet, reached for the telephone, called him in Macon, Georgia, and said, "You' re a young man with some newspaper background and I need a good young man in my office. How about nine o'clock tomorrol'1 morning?" ' saw some ten years demonstrated
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 2 (II), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • feelings that he would redirect either by telephone or sometimes with an actual notati0n on the draft. And it was also through these directions 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 3 (III), 1/2/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on natural beauty. Diana had sparked the idea for it and, as a result of our conversations at the luncheon, Mrs. Johnson decided to go ahead and have Diana spearhead the youth conference on natural beauty, to take place in 1966. Liz did a great deal
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • the hospital for any length of time. I did call them on the telephone and talk to them, every day. I got Willie Day Taylor, God bless her; she was already my great reliance with the children. She was on Lyndon's staff. She had been married, years earlier
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 3 (III), 1/17/89, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or five members that were listening to the conversation. I called her and said, "You've got to repudiate this. It's a humiliation. You have to admit that this fellow's gone haywire but keep the blame on his defection; his default is a better word." His
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was taking advice and it depended which one had spoken to him last as to what he would say on the telephone with Attorney General Kennedy or anybody else. President overestimated Kennedy was very, the impact of this very reluctant because
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Dayton Moses said, "Hell, of course, Sam." Miller. He put a call in to Roy That was the man that had managed Dick Kleberg's campaign. Never forget the name of Roy Miller in conversations, because to me, well, he was one of the shrewdest public
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the case. G: Let's go back to 1964 and the legislative operation again. What I've just handed you is a telephone list of senators to call and subjects to take up with them. It's not clear who was to make those calls, whether the President was or you were
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 5 (V), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to a conversation between President Johnson and Secretary [Robert] McNamara in my presence in the Cabinet Room late in the afternoon of May 3, 1965. My reason for being present at that time was a previous session that had been held with the President and Secretary
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ear, and I sat at his deaf ear and talked while he was talking, and vice versa when the Bulgarian ambassador [was talking]. I didn't even have a notebook with me, so there's no memcon [memorandum of conversation] of that, except my own recollection
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXVIII -- 2 G: But he took the initiative, as you recall. C: Oh, he took the initiative and pressed very hard. G: Do you recall what he said in those phone conversations? C: No, I
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And there were conversations during the two or three days before the nomination itself with my father. My father was under a strong belief that President Kennedy should not make the effort to secure the vice presidential nomination-- F: Because it was too
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a conspiracy or anything of that nature? O: No, I don't recall any conversations with him on the assassination. There were probably references to it, but it just never came into our discussions. My sole after-the-fact involvement was, as I recall it, being
  • running mate and RFK's concern that the conversation might have been recorded; whether or not RFK wanted to be vice president; a memo LBJ dictated to Walter Jenkins about his meeting with RFK; the candidates LBJ considered for his vice presidential running
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • well conversant with what electronic hobgoblins can do. And I recall there being a great deal of doubt about just exactly what had been approaching those destroyer units. M: Did that mean that the advice from the Department was divided on whether
  • Escalation of the Vietnam War; Gulf of Tonkin incident; inadequacies in advice given to the President; Ed Gullion episode; XYZ Affair; UN and U Thant; Bundy-Dobrynin conversation, fall of 1965; A-B Theory proposal; Glassboro; Averell Harriman
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 2 (II), 2/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it by getting the sense and the meanings of our conversations and our discussions and convey that sense of meaning to Hanoi. Of course there was, I can't remember in detail now all of the elements of the conversations, but the Poles pressed us pretty hard
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 1 (I), 10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . B: To whom did you communicate this attitude at the time, sir? F: Oh, to audiences before which I spoke and personal conversations. B: This was during the campaign itself? F: This was during the campaign itself, yes, during the campaign itself
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I had conversations with [Abe] Fortas and with the President. I guess at three-fifteen, and then later in the day. These led to a whole series of suggestions. G: Why Fortas? Why wouldn't . . . ? C: Well, I mean, you know, we must have been
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • wound up and it might not by that stage be productive at all. It could be a matter of reminiscences, conversation, projections, and talking about individual members, perhaps. G: Did you have an impression that he just didn't like to be alone, that he
Oral history transcript, Allie T. Hughes and Lorena D. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • years that he was there. That was one way he was paying his room rent. He was very, very industrious. EG: Mrs. Hughes, you said that he would often talk with you before class. Do you recall any of the conversations, what they were about, what LBJ
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tocker -- I -~ 6 From the material that I have seen, the industry was having conversations with the Department of Commerce in 1963
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • strongly and if someone disagreed, he'd argue with them . B : Yes . G: I was going to ask you some more about those conversations that you and President Johnson and Senator Wirtz used to have when Lyndon Johnson was a young congressman . B: When he
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in April of 1968, and I believe it was on a Sunday afternoon; we were having a conversation, and he indicated that Ambassador [Llewellyn E.] Thompson had to stay in Moscow because of a number of things which were going on, including the possibility
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the conversation. There was a part of the conversation that dealt with Vietnam and dealt with how it was affecting the Democrats' chances and all of that, but I was just in and out so I don't recall making any notes on the conversation. G: Was there anything
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 2 (II), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • had a very strange name, Lady Bird Johnson, and she said that her husband, who was a representative, was ill and couldn't come that day. This was a Sunday or a Saturday. The only thing I remember in the conversation was she said, "He's just been
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on my conversations with Mrs. Johnson and with the President. I think she really kept the President more interested than he might otherwise have been. M: That's interesting. I've heard that before, and it's an interesting insight, someone who has
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • but I could probably recall if I heard it--it's a one syllable name, I think, like Dean or Bell. This fellow seemed quite interested and told Senator Kennedy that he was going to report the conversation to Washington. And I think Senator Kennedy told
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? What did you do Does the State Department try to teach you a little bit of conversational Swedish, or do they just let you go on the way you are? And what do they do in the way of briefing? H: Well, I did not undertake to--as far as the language
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , my memory doesn't serve me on that. But I told him very early in our conversation that the very 1ast substantive conversation that I had had with Kennedy was about a poverty program. The reason I had seen Kennedy before 1eaving for Japan
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , and if that's all they did, we wouldn't get very much out of the conversation because we really knew where we were going. But more often than not, the Vietnamese, because of their own personality, their spontaneity, the traits they have, were very easy to engage
Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . always will. And I cherish his memory; Then Congressman Lyndon Johnson came into the office, and the Speaker asked him to sit down and he joined in the conversation. It was my concern, being a new member just starting out, should become embroiled