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Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of a mutuality of interest in, and agreement on, Viet Nam. At one stage he had come to me and had commented on the fact that he was exceedingly concerned at the direction the Administration was taking on Viet Nam. We had a long conversation. I think he was very
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Deason -- VII -- 4 D: . . . be a different item. I've just finished telling you about my conversation with the President when I agreed that I would take and he would give to me the appointment
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in many conversations in view of uniting all the Nationalists and by then, the Dai Viet Party established a school of military cadre in Chapa in the northern part of Vietnam in the province of Lao Cai, very close to the border to China. And it was a very
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and wonderful conversations, oftentimes Hale playing the devil's advocate to get them to talk and to argue. Always children were allowed, and I keep feeling that the Johnson children, the Boggs children, and all the other children whose lives Mr. Sam and Lyndon
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and went out. And our conversation went right on. a dramatic experience. This was kind of He never said what he wanted, never said what his purpose was in calling me down. But it was a very good get-acquainted visit and it was clear he had something
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • screwed up. He was an instinctual man, and I think that this was good for us because F: Did you sit in on the conversations when he received them in the Ova 1 Office? S: Occasionally, yes. I was there. F: Were they fairly easy going? S: Oh, yes, he
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of fact, Mr. Johnson in numerous conversations that I've had with him since coming down to Congress in the last few years has made mention of that fact, and talked with some humor about the bargain that my father attempted to pull on him with regard
Oral history transcript, Ashton Gonella, interview 3 (III), 11/21/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can think of. MG: Let me ask you to describe his conversations about her. AG: Do you mean while she was alive or afterwards? MG: Both, both. AG: Well, I've said before while she was alive he was very proud to introduce her to people and brag
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Roberts--I--5 G: Was this conversation held in the Johnson City home or after she had moved to Austin? R: It was here in Washington. She had come on a long automobile trip with her daughter, Lucia Alexander, and Lucia’s
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have any conversations with him about that, as to why he didn't sign it? R: I don't remember. it. I may have. It seemed to me as he shouldn't sign I don't even remember if I was surprised that he didn't sign it. He and one other [southern] senator
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and had discussed various matters with him--and I had a very high opinion of him, if I may say so. He was an admirable man to talk with because it was a two-sided conversation with him. We were, in spite of our differences of age, sympathetic to each
Oral history transcript, Richard E. Neustadt, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -damned professor, I! and soothed him down. H: He did finally trace it to you. N: Oh, sure. M: Did he have anything to say to you directly? N: No, I don't think I talked to him about it. Ken traced i t to me--if I recall the conversation, traced
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • were great. And I said, "How about Andrew Johnson?" She said, "I hope you don't call him a great man." So that ended the conversation then. J: Now is this Mrs. Johnson's mother that you're speaking of now specifically? P: Yes. J: All right, sir
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • heard that the meetings were being held with the opposition leaders, but we received no call from the Foreign Minister [Ihsan S.] Caglayangil or others in the Turkish government that they were prepared to pick up the conversations again. This dragged
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • " [Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy or Ship Construction Navy] stands for. And he'd like to reconsider the carrier question. The President said he did not want to reconsider anything until he got the figure down below sixty-one billion which was his way of really
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as they thought it was going to be. But I do remember the day after, McNamara--I had very few personal conversations with McNamara when I was his assistant. It wasn't until after I got out of the Pentagon that we became personal friends. But I remember the day
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXIX -- 3 either after I met with the President or the day before and then I must have talked to them again, but he clearly, because I refer to an earlier conversation that day. The reason I'm hesitant about
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the auto industry, they've got to be worried about safety. There are people out there. This is all the Department of Transportation. I do not think we talked to them early on about auto safety. I think most of our conversations on the Hill were with people
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 3/8/1969, by Jack Valenti and Robert L. Hardesty (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh NATIONAL ARCHNES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY Legal Agreement Pertaining to the Conversation of LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, JACK VALENTI, and ROBERT HARDESTY Subject to the terms
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 4/16/1970, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was presented to him, and he invited me to ride back on the train. I did ride back with him. We had a good conversation on the train. We talked about my election; we talked about my future in Washington, including my committee assignments and other matters
Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 2 (II), 1/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Montgomery, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • was carr'yin~ j s
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Nasser as a person? Vietnam primarily. Now you said that of course you didn't have direct conversations with him, but you observed him in action, I'm sure, in conversations with ambassadors. N: He was certainly very charismatic. palm of his hand. He
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • it was? W: There wasn't much to talk about, because you had to plow new furrows because there hadn't been any cultivation to speak of to that point. Mr. Johnson's primary conversation had to do with the fact that if I were going to be so closely associated
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to talk to you about the War on Poverty things that you're doing in Texas." So obviously, I'd set aside a morning or whatever was necessary to listen to the Governor and we'd have a very straightforward, back and forth conversation with Governor Connally
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • someone you can talk with? C: Well, it was a matter of telling him something, and it was about a two-minute conversation. I talked to Walter Fauntroy a lot. He is someone you can talk with. F: Well, he is giving us some very detailed interviews
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • by President Díaz Ordaz in Spanish. Of course, I later told President Johnson that President Díaz Ordaz in his conversation with President Johnson remarked more-or-less as a side comment, "Well, we have finally resolved a problem that has existed for over
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it. what was on the other end of the conversation. I couldn't tell But the next thing I heard was, "Sam, I hope you'll help to try to head this thing off, because it's a bad thing." And then more conversation. Then I heard him say, "You know Sam, we
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 2 (II), 5/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that night. The next day was spent in various activities, swimming, bowling, and walks and driving around the compound and having relaxed conversations. In the evening John Chancellor showed us a sixteen-millimeter film which he had just taken of the ranch
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JAKE JACOBSEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Jacobsen's residence, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: I wanted to ask you about Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism and the impact that that had
  • Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ's religious beliefs and church attendance; James Eastland's involvement in James Coleman's appointment; LBJ using a candidate's stance on civil rights and other issues as a litmus test for choosing
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • be wrong, this is just an impression, but based on conversations that I had with him and watching him move around the House. He was very quick and walked fast between here and the Cannon Building. I'd meet him in the tunnel; he'd be walking very fast
  • ; Barkley; Rayburn-Johnson conversation regarding the Democratic nomination for president; LBJ's working relationship with Eisenhower; Rayburn; Civil Rights Act; Federal aid to education; Gerald Ford
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 1 (I), 4/26/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was just taking pictures. There's nothing wrong with that." And I said, "Well, there is something wrong with that. We cannot in any way jeopardize this study by any picture taking, friendly conversations, or what have you on the part of any staff
Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 3 (III), 4/1/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • information in conversation, particularly with relation to things that were political. He could astound you at the knowledge he would have that he gained out of conversation. H: In one of your other i.ntervi,ews, I thi,nk you mentioned the Congress iona 1
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But [of] all those early days before the war, I can't think of any specific conversation or anything, except I always looked forward to seeing them, I always knew he was going to be great company. But I can't think of any particular pre -war incident; it rna
Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the federal programs, and don't know that we ever had anything more than a casual conversation. F: You and Johnson by sort of background would be at odds on one thing, and that is your emphasis on the strengthening of states and Johnson with a very strong
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of that conversation he explained that the top career job in the Civil Service Commission, that of executive director, was about to be vacant through the retirement of the long-time incumbent, and that he had decided that he wanted to have someone from outside
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] of that conversation. More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--12 My recollection is very hazy, because I
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • said." I said, "Well, why stir it up? That was a private conversation. It wasn't something that he wanted in the press; it was a private conversation with me, and I'd hate to implicate my colleague here." They didn't use it. U: Did they? M
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • over in Lexington, Mississippi. B: Hazel Brannon Smith? C: Hazel Brannon Smith did. Oliver Emmerich in McComb did. I think that was all. B: Did you have any personal conversations or letters with Mr. Johnson in connection with the '64 campaign
Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • picked up the phone and called the White House trying to set up an appointment for Dr. King to talk with President Johnson the next day. And for some reason--we don't understand how--they put him right through. So they had about an hour conversation where