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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have some rate adjustments ultimately enacted. Beyond that, the President was beginning to focus on the election of 1968, and I found that I was in conversations with him over 1967 more and more. Those conversations involved evaluations and planning
  • and Senate leadership and problems with the whip system in the House; the increase in concern over the Vietnam War among congressmen; the work of John McCormack, Carl Albert, and Hale Boggs as house majority whips; O'Brien's conversation with Chicago Mayor
Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • said he had a job. That was one of the conversations going on in the car. The President looked into the distance and said, "A well patient does not need a doctor every day, and a doctor needs more than one patient to say competent." I remember sort
Oral history transcript, Gerri Whittington, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No recollections regarding ambassadorial appointments or anything--? W: No, I don't know, because my boss was very secretive and I never heard the conversations. I guess the conversation was mostly by phone. G: And then after President Kennedy's assassination
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • senators. But I think primarily during this period the thing that surprised me is how many times I talked to people or they talked to me about the gas bill and reported on their conversations with [Albert] Gore or [Stuart] Symington or different senators
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the most revealing would probably be the discussions, conversations, that took place between Robert Kennedy and the President during that period of time. I'm not sure within that given framework whether this included the time that Senator Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in the price area. This led to conversations with the President in which he wanted me to, as far as the price of milk was concerned, to see if it was something we could move aggressively in the antitrust area against some of the big companies. There was--and I
Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • INTERVIEWER: William S. White DATE: May 8, 1968 W: This is the conversation between Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois, the Republican leader of the Senate, and William S. White. It's being made on May 8, 1968. Senator, you've known President
Oral history transcript, Sidney Dillon Ripley II, interview 1 (I), undated, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , it was the original Corcoran Gallery of Art, that it would have been far more efficient to tum the building back into a gallery of some sort, rather than to modify it into other purposes as an office building. In this con- nection, as a result of a conversation
Oral history transcript, Claud Kellam, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • was an uncle of mine, Jim Cage. Knowing that Lyndon was werking with Kleberg, and Jim Cage, Mother's brother, and Kleberg beins ;ood friends, the conversation popped up rather easily. My most direct knowledge of anything that the President in at that time ccp
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 2 (II), 11/13/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a series of conversations, I believe--at different intervals, during 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to get much done in the wake of that report. But my recollection of conversations with President Johnson is that he also wanted to really shake up the television networks and the communications business, the broadcasting business and he put Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • trying to fit them into a salary slot, because that's too long and complicated. After having asked if they were this thing or something else, then if I got inside I'd start a conversation. I said, "What is this office? I was looking for this other one
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • conversations with them up to that point had been conversations on some--on what was happening. Now they were after is, "What is Johnson like?" G: Yes. How would you define your official responsibilities during this period? R: That period? The same
Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , but there were relatively minor in nature . M: Did he ever comment to you, either at the convention or later, about the nature of the vice presidency, his opinion of it? B: No, not in a personal conversation, nor did I have any occasion to be present in groups
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XI -- 4 about it. Sometime after Watts or at some other point I do remember him in a long conversation talking about violence
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 2 (II), 10/6/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in, and there were. some . quiet whispered conversations. I said to Arthur Schlesinger, ~ . who was standing by me, "How do you feel about complying with the President's request? Are you going to stay?" He . said, ~·1 don't know whether he wants me
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the money." That's always in political campaigns. I'm sure your conversation with Louie Martin revealed that in that area there was a particularly unique approach to this. G: At the time there was a lot of press speculation that you might replace John
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that because we didn't want the President looking like he was running around with an elephant gun. In some conversation I had with the President early on I said we really needed to know something about the copper market, and as I went around the government, we
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • either the relationship with the Soviet Union or the peace process in Vietnam to the results he had hoped to achieve by the end of his presidency. We had many conversations about that. I remember that in November, probably during the Thanksgiving period
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JOHN A. GRONOUSKI INTERVIEWER: Paige E. Mulhollan PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: The subjects that haven't been talked about that I think are important--the conversation with the Red Chinese which occurred I think
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • • knowing it, because you can't be around anybody as catalytic as Lyndon Johnson and not be swept up into it. I think that she has had the best teacher in the world in government, in really practical government. She has probably heard more conversations
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to go for Kefauver instead of for Humphrey . I guess I didn't really know the result because I think the roll call started after that caucus . But any rate, my conversation with Brooks Hays was just as the vote had started and before Arkansas' name
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a 10 per cent surtax. K: Yes, well, I had a number of conversations with the President about that but didn't of course play any role in the dynamics of that situation. But I do know that getting a tax [increase] was one of his high priorities
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • great respect for the other man's judgment. Now he'll make his own final judgment, but he wants facts and figures and therefore he will guide the conversation along 1 inles of interest to his guests and along lines and subjects with which the guest
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Right. 8: But I had envisioned he was running the United States on another scale. F: Right. He really had a facility, I think, of keeping several conversations going at once. I'm sure, you know, he's not so busy running the Ranch that he's
Oral history transcript, Alfred Melinger, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me now, Mike, that I only heard the conversations later. it was a vigorous discussion. in staff meetings. Lyndon wanted to move to Austin, and It was not conducted, as I remember, Probably conducted in the privacy of Mr. Drought's office, although
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • did. F: Why didn't he go on the plane? C: Because by that time he knew he wasn't going to be. By that time he knew about the Bobby Kennedy conversation. F: Which Bobby Kennedy conversation? C: The Bobby Kennedy conversation, I've told you
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Secretary Hickel's assistants a briefer run-down from the more lengthy one. I was told later that Hickel had not read it, and wouldn't because he doesn't like to read things. It's mostly through across the table conversations that he gets his
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • . And then suddenly a new office was started that was entering the conversation, not as advocates for particular programs, but really as analysts of the value of programs. So that the space had to be made, really, from Jim's world. And it was made. I hired three very
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Luyen. I spent plenty of time with him telling him I was in conversations with his brother for quite a long time already, even before he formed his government. Well, I tried to help him a lot in the sense that, if it can be done, we will try to rely
Oral history transcript, Ruth Booker, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1986, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Booker -- I -- 5 was very domineering and very dominating of the conversation. I don't care what the conversation
Oral history transcript, Barnaby Conrad Keeney, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Sure. M: Was there any effort to get out the people? K: I dare say there was, but I didn't do it. M: Were you anticipating such a crowd? K: No. M: Did you have any conversations with him during this time? K: Oh, sure. M: Would you tell me
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to get back into photographing because I started listening to the conversation. like, "If we'd only done this--" And it was one of the things "If this hadn't happened here--" we'd started this a little sooner--" "If "If we'd done this kind of thing
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on a conversation he n- ',"13 doing the signing. So he didn't raise never corr.plaincd about: Lt. bitterly a';()ut b;}vin::; to 8i[:n rt,: n;:'.~::2 ':111)' question about I think that I Hould have complained so much or hav2 my picture made i ~;OPV iSJ
Oral history transcript, Ronald Goldfarb, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • talking about money. But I wasn't in on those conversations, so I don't know. G: How about congressional input? Did you have any input from the Hill before the legislation was submitted? RG: Yes, definitely. G: Who was involved with that? RG
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the point where any action had been taken. Conversations took place of an informal nature, but anything in an organizational sense had not occurred. That is awfully late. So it has to be people in their spare moments giving some thought to a campaign
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • should be retained to produce some spots. O: Yes, I did meet with him. We went over in detail what I envisioned to be the thrust. We met with others who were involved doing the bio. G: Tell me about your conversations with Tony Schwartz and your
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had twenty-five conversations with Roy Wilkins or Whitney Young for every one I had with Dr. King. King was a little bit lofty, a little bit off up there. Even if I look at the pictures I've got of meetings with black leaders, King is not there nearly
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that gave him a true belief that he had a good shot at the nomination. I don't recall now, but I remember Johnson and I discussing specific states in conversations over the intervening years. G: North Carolina, Arizona. . . . 11 LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the reality of attempting to enact a specific program. I made no specific comment that I can recall, and the conversation terminated when we reached the Oval Office. That was a passing commentary that I thought was indicative of some concern that the father