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Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

backing among the Mc: ~ress and a good many influential and well-to-do people. In =.:-:y occasion of his being up for election, did you have any conversations with him regarding getting more support for his candidacy? F: The only time that could have

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was--through [minority] leader to majority leader, and see that whole process unfold. Fortunately with Mr. Rayburn, the two of them were in the two top legislative offices, and of course, not that I was privy to a lot of their conversations, but just because

Oral history transcript, Eugene V. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 17 And the third is that he is extraordinarily sensitive and adept at diplomatic conversations. M: You mean interpersonal with foreign dignitaries? R: Dignitaries. It's often said, that oh, well, that's not his specialty

Oral history transcript, Emily Crow Selden, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, obviously absolutely devoted to Bird, but very, very busy. Unlike my father, he wasn't at home much, and he was not what I would call conversational. I didn't get to know him except as Bird's father. I didn't know him as a personality as I think Bird got

Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there--but certainly the Secretary of HEW-G: [Anthony] Celebrezze. M: And others, probably [Orville] Freeman for Agriculture and so on, whoever was around the table, the cabinet-level part. like this conversation took place: But something liOn Community Action we

Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this vote I got Purtell back outside the center door, over there sitting against the wall, and reminded him of the conversation . I said, "Now here you're going to have an opportunity to prove whether you believe that or whether you don't . this vote

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on and interested myself through conversations with my old associates on the National Service Program, some of whom had low-level staff positions or very intermittent relationships with the task force. It occurred to me at the time, and it certainly occurred

Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh any of it was anybody's pet idea that they were pushing. And they did a little research and found that other people had proposed it and it had some background, but I think it just came out in the normal course of staff conversations

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

people in the room. At that time I do remember his saying how Hubert Humphrey was hungering after the job, and that he's overdoing it, and he got angry with people pressuring him on Hubert Humphrey's behalf. I remember being in conversations about

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the-G: My reading of this, plus what you've told me in previous conversations, is that he may have been too accessible on an individual basis, calling one reporter at a time in and talking to him for an hour or such, but he perhaps did not give enough

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

conversation here, are things that you might think would add dimension to what you know is in those records because you are the one who pulled them together very 12 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

did make a commitment ifyou came." This is what I'm saying, that Mr. Rayburn was that much of a Democrat. G: One ofthe items from the files, I'll show it to you, is a memo of a conversation between LBJ and Weldon Hart in April 1952. And it does

Oral history transcript, George Sandlin, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

really remember all of that now because I was not the one making the decisions on those. I don't really know. I'm not privy to any conversation- G: Are there any other events concerning civil rights that you recall during that time? There was a crisis

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

minutes of conversation with him and had my picture taken with him. Frankly, I was rather disappointed that I didn't get to speak with him longer, but, of course, I understood that he was very busy and very burdened, and I remember that I felt very

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

will. No reply ever came. He just chose to regard me as someone who was hostile, who was trying to make his job difficult. So we had no transition. That's the effect of it. We just had that one conversation. F: Let's shift a little bit now. Let's go down

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

just wasting my time." He didn't hold any vindictive view of these people. Oddly, enough he was far kinder toward them in private conversations than they were to him. But he quit seeing some people on the grounds that it was no good. He did continue

Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, but his intense .involvement came only after December . So he would have been operating concurrently with Ball? Concurrently--but the one that I described was very particularly George Ball's operation . Conversely, though, when the big pause came up

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 1/23/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

at the Mayflower. G: Would you get together a lot with him in the evenings? J: Yes, yes. His coming was always an opportunity for a good dinner and good conversation, in which women were included, although we did not participate too much in the conversation

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

uncanny ability to call people by name and to introduce them to her other friends and tell little interesting anecdotes about them, which would get a conversation started, even in a mausoleum. The then-majority leader stood at the head of the receiving

Oral history transcript, George D. Aiken, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

don't mind Senator. You've been very kind to give me this much time. When Mr. Johnson became President suddenly after the assassination, did you have any early personal conversations with him? A: I can't recall the first conversation I had with him. I

Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that he was awake. M: This was work in regard to politics? B: That's right. M: Did he often talk about politics in a social situation? B: Occasionally in the social conversations he would make remarks about politics or what 20 LBJ Presidential

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

a conversation [about] how Shannon didn't want to get anything accomplished specifically as far as we could make out, and we told him how he did the reverse of everything that's common sense. So he picked up the phone and he said, "Get me Cohen, Wilbur Cohen

Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

th~ remember one newspapers about it, there was a lot of conversation among the Democratic Parey workers in our precinct where I had been a there wor~er, . . with \"Tas a good bl t •..•. u.L-ere were some evening rneetlngs .-. various members

Oral history transcript, Robert M. Jackson, interview 1 (I), 4/5/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)

. We took it for granted that He indicated that many, many times in conversation but I never recall his ever saying he wanted to be President or Senator or Governor or any other specific office . G: One thing that has been commented upon

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of conversation that you think might be important to record-either where you've touched the career of President Johnson, or anything in connection with your service in Vietnam during his Administration-that we haven't talked about? W: Outside of the times that I

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

anything else and he eventually took it. G: Did he leave you any parting shot, any instructions, recommendations, words of advice? H: Not really. We had some conversations before he left mostly about specific problems that were on hand. As a matter

Oral history transcript, Emmette S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at Christmas vacations, summer time, other periods. We occasionally had some conversations together. I never had close contacts with him after those years. I saw him only occasionally when he was here with the National Youth Administration, and I've seen

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

any conversations of the two of them together or any . . . gi ve us a picture of. . • N: I don't remember that conversation, but I remember the time that they were sitting at the big table in my office over at the Capitol having lunch. I was having

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of Kennedy's conversion to the Heller � � 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14

Oral history transcript, Richard S. (Cactus) Pryor, interview 1 (I), 9/10/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)

, "Could I have yOI.!r attention, please?" and conversing. And I said a little They went on eating Finally, I shouted out in my best Texas voice, "Simmer down!" And they did. I emceed very much like I did the other functions at the ranch, very

Oral history transcript, June White, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--I-- 1 6 "I don't know if I would go looking for that house ." I think that [LBJ] did not approve of [Moyer's] interfering in the conversation . He didn't think it was up to him to comment on it, you see . So that was his way of saying, "You're

Oral history transcript, Thurgood Marshall, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Number two, he thought that he would like to have me as his representative before the Court. The other thing which goes through every conversation we had from then on--he would say at least three or four times, "You know this has nothing to do with any

Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 2 (II), 9/29/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, things that you really didn't bring up when you were conversing with that particular senator. I remember I went back and told Shriver, I said, "Get him out of the town. I don't want him on the Hill again. He'll blow everything on us." He was a decent guy

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the mail, and watching the news and sometimes talking to Jockey Wade, who managed the house and worked with Dale outside. He might be carrying on two or three conversations at one time while he was watching the news and looking at his mail, which I could

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a terrific compliment that Johnson would ask you to do that," that it was a question for me to decide myself, that she thought that he was right, that I would be good at it because of some of the things I mentioned at the beginning of this conversation

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

don't think there's any comparison. I think Lyndon Johnson is head and shoulders above Nixon, in intellectual capacity and feeling . And yet, you know, in personal conversation, Lyndon Johnson is a very warm man, and he's funny as all hell! He's one

Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 3 (III), 11/14/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for almost an hour. Secretary Freeman. that he was there." The President said, It turned out that it was "Well, I'm sorry, I didn't know Well, in any case he really seemed to enjoy the conversation and I certainly did, too. And he was very encouraging

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

imperatives or, conversely, was all of this material, arguments that came from the Pentagon with regard LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was done down at the Ranch. I was much more in synch with him in this point in time, so there was a lot more conversation, oral conversation along the way. I think, to the extent I remember, the briefing was short; he knew where we were. I'm just going