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Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 2 (II), 6/1/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

that rather shook up the White House some months before, and I'd read that and I was very much interested. So I looked forward to seeing him when he got back. I don'C"recall we ever sat down and really talked over what he saw on the trip. , I saw his cables

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, Oscar M. Laurel, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

you consider yourself a liberal at that time? L: Yes, I would consider myself a liberal. M: Did you follow the leadership of Mrs. Randolph during that period? L: No, not much. I know that I was very much aware of Mrs. Randolph. I used to read

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

getting up and reading a letter from Johnson, or a message from Johnson, to prevail in the debate in which he made a most tear-jerking plea not to disavow the policies of Jack Kennedy. And in our exchange of correspondence, that seemed to be reflected

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Nasser's assessment of LBJ as a person. N: Did any of this ever filter down to you? Not to me. I've read [Mohamed] Heikal's assessment of Nasser's dis- like for LBJ personally, but I saw none of that at all. G: As long as Mr. Heikal's name has come up

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

went on the What happened was I went on the floor, it was Washington's Birthday. And in 1958 on Washington's Birthday, a senator got up and read Washington's Farewell Address and then we adjourned. And that day [in 1959J, a senator got up and read

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

grievances and so forth. But I don't remember minimum wage. And you say, [reading from outline] "Has there an urban orientation? primarily on urban instead of rural poverty?" G: Last time, right. Y: Yes. "How did the task force function? We talked

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

the pledge or you can't come." I said, "Let them talk. We'll run the convention off, and we'll come tell you the convention's over, and you can forget it." (Laughter) We had the roll call. We had the committee on delegates come in and read the disk, adopted

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 3 (III), 6/21/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

there at the presiding officer, and he'd have his man up there in the presiding office, [and indicate] third reading, get those three fingers up. Third reading. Bingo! You just have to understand this fellow. He worked the floor of the Senate. And also he never hesitated

Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know whether that particular build up was more wasteful than others. I guess I'd have to say my impression is that it was not, that it was probably better managed than it is today, from what I read. There was a lot of money--this was highly contentious

Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Gideon -- I -- 3 G: Okay. I read all the newspapers in the Tenth Congressional district and clipped anything I thought would be of interest to him, and I did lots of personal letters for him. B

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 10 Mc: Now this brings up the problems of the maritime industry in general. From what I have heard and read, the major problem in the United States maritime industry is the loss of trade to foreign shippers. Now

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

read it, it was quite a conciliatory statement. It pulled a lot of chestnuts out of the fire. When I say conciliatory, it did not retreat one inch from McClellan's basic principles. McClellan was ultraconservative. labor in the slightest

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to President Kennedy's call, and I spent a good many evenings reading and grading those papers after I entered office. My call from President Kennedy came after an interesting series of circum- stances. The first entre: to the Kennedy Admi~ration came

Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to be. We early found that we had a new kind of relationship with children. The early measures on this, even after the first year or so, showed significant gains in the child's readiness for school. We didn't try to teach them to read at age three

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

talked to me, and the conversation was just about this . He said, "Alan, I've been hearing a lot and reading a lot about the Northeast Airlines case . As far as I'm concerned, I want good air service in New England and whatever you do to accomplish

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

to bed about midnight and got up the next morning and ate breakfast . The President invited us all to go to church . And after breakfast, I was sitting in the living room reading the paper, and the President said, "Alan, come in here . I want to show

Oral history transcript, Edward J. Brenner, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at the moment about the only way you can get it in is to have a professional read through a document, and select certain key terms that then would be put in machine form . If LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: No, we designed the Manned Spacecraft--engineer and architecture . didn't build any of it but we designed it . M: There's been a lot written about that, and how it came about-- B: I don't know what you've been reading . a lot written . You're right

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on with me. said, "Well, I appreciate that note I had from you." He I was completely blank, and I said, "Oh, Mr. President, you didn't read that note." He said, "Of course I did! How do you think I knew about it if I didn't?" I said, "Well, thank you." He

Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 2 (II), 3/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

confrontation, and in those that did not, confrontation flowed. Because the poor and the newly emerging advo- cacy leadership of the poor read the act not only in the words, but in the spirit of what they meant. There was already, of course, the climate

Oral history transcript, William F. Billings, interview 1 (I), 5/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

have an opportunity to sit down with you and understand why you felt the way you do about certain things, well, I might get a completely different idea than I would from reading something in the newspapers about what you'd done or what you thought, you

Oral history transcript, Joseph C. Swidler, interview 3 (III), 7/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

read the New York Times or the Washington Post, you would know, but you wouldn't always know if you were living in Wappinger Falls, Minnesota [New York]. G: Now, the whole area rate formula was a novel formula for regulation. Is that not true? 17

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Kennedy was right in dismantling the National Security Council. They had an awful real system of overlays there that was just-M: They say they're going to rebuild this next January ·[i969J. K: If they do they're utterly foolish. M: I read

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 3 (III), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, provided a home away from home for Russell, who would come over on Sunday afternoon and read the papers and sit around the house and talk and so forth. And I would guess that Johnson's respect for Russell surpassed his feelings of that sort for anybody else

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: There were those who primarily, as I remember at the time, were aligned with the health effort who encouraged Lister Hill to run. Senator Hill was extremely closed-mouthed in that regard, and I was too. I could pretty well read, I felt, the signs that he

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. That's all that was needed. Well, they read a lot of significance into the fact that Justice Fortas' law partner interested himself in getting this money and then later, of course, it was testified that the fee for the lectures to the Justice was $15,000

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

are a group of people that later worked for Dean Acheson and John McCloy and Phil Graham and the Oakes-- M: That has been done. You know people like Richard Rovere. Have you ever read that little thing on the Establishment that he wrote? [Richard H. Rovere

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

in one of the little side offices in the White House. At that time I recall that he seemed very tired and actually lay down on the couch while I sat beside him. He read my resume, and we talked for a few minutes about my background and on my growing up

Oral history transcript, John S. Foster, Jr., interview 3 (III), 1/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

, their pace, their decision-making, their attitudes toward research and engineering? F: I don't find them very different from the way the reader would find them from reading the newspapers. They're both extremely able men who have made the decision to serve

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

don't have recorded, he was very hopeful that we would have some substantial national monument designations. I think I was as surprised as anyone else peripherally involved with the situation when I read in the press the final size of the designations

Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the fall of 1965. And the tone of the paragraph on the end of Page 18 and the top of Page 19 is not wrong, there was lots of pressure being exerted and I think the President was right to do so, but what I sense as I re-read it is that a reader would

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

implied-- F: Might I just say that Lyndon Johson is a man of deep emotions. And if the mothers of the men who went to Vietnam could have seen him on occasion as I saw him reading their letters with the deepest emotion they would have felt as sorry

Oral history transcript, Robert Storey, interview 1 (I), 3/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

days. So they put Hess in the front row there, with the doctors observing film. He would sit up there and pretend to be reading a book and wouldn't talk to Ribbentrop or Göring or anybody. All the other defendants would talk with one another during

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

: Oh~ well ~ the people who read the transcripts will have to make up their own minds about that one. T: He's a character. He's worth meeting. G: I understand he's in the area. T: Really? G: I think so. He's in McLean. I think so. Well

Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 1 a (I), 10/22/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

campaign coordinator for a variety of reasons. B: One reads so much about the magnificent Kennedy organization in '60. This doesn't seem to square that. V: I think someone probably made a judgment that there were these few states that should not have

Oral history transcript, Carl Vinson, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1970, by Frank Deaver (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Did you recognize any particular change in direction in President Johnson's administration after his election to a full term in '64? V: All I know about that was what I read in the newspapers, because I was back here at home

Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to those I can remember very well asking his advice and counsel about the legislation and my having gotten none of my bills passed. But I hoped to have some influence on other things that were done. M: I have read that Lyndon Johnson worked closely

Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: I can't think of any now. I think that I can say safely that I had read all of my speeches before I delivered them, and as a result they were consistent with my views. P: The only thing I haven't asked you about is your activity surrounding

Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

have confided to me about a federal judge appointment in Georgia. I don't know whether it was based on something Senator Russell said or whether I was merely trying to read between the lines--but I had the impression that Senator Russell may have been