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Oral history transcript, Mitchell Rogovin, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Service special agents read the newspapers, like anyone else, and if they see something that has the potential of generating unreported income, they may well start an investigation. The investigation as I recall, LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

]? That that portrait should [be selected]. Actually, it was even in the papers. I hadn't read it, and some friends called me, and they told me, "Do you know your portrait is being used for a stamp?" I was quite surprised. F: You'll have one of the greatest

Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the White House and they had a long discusDid he ever talk about that with you? S: No. I read about that in the paper. G: What was his relationship with Kennedy like during this period? I know there had been a lot of friction between them earlier. S

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

briefly the budget, to provide relevant background materials. So that this will be really a reading file for the new people. M: Cohen did this too for the incoming secretary? L: Right. M: Did this preparation go on at all levels? L: At various

Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Browning, I believe it was, and a marvelous library. And she read a great deal. I remember that she wore this large hat with a veil and her carriage was excellent. She was a handsome woman, erect. This is ~ impression, and I was a child. G: Why did

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and equipment into a military victory--I think if one reads Mr. McNamara's testimony and his press statements during that period, he really was very cautious about any estimate about rapid victory. Prior to 1965 I remember Mr. McNamara believed and so stated

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 3 (III), 8/1/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't resolve everything beforehand. The chairman would read item number one and before anybody could say anything maybe the chairman on the other side would say, "Recedes" because the [inaudible] agrees to that." G: One of the controversial provisions

Oral history transcript, Cecil D. Redford, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that story, and many, many years later I read in Time magazine where Lyndon was telling that as one of the stories from his school. And it came from me, from my school. M: You mentioned earlier that when you were in high school and went to school

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: I have read that there was some friction with the highway people over the Highway Trust Fund, and possible plans to use that more broadly by the department . B: Is there anything to that? You have to refine your question, Dave . The answer

Oral history transcript, Emanuel Celler, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

as the hills. You read the newspapers of 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, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me up one Sunday morning and asked me if I'd read page 78 of the New York Times. I said, "No." It was down three flights of stairs from me. And he said, "Well, you go downstairs and get the newspaper, the New York Times." And I went down and got

Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of his having read Michael Harrington's The Other America.] At any rate, Bill Cannon was on the receiving end for the report that came back from the CEA. The report was a laundry list of possible direct measures to increase the incomes of the poor. Cannon

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that episode when he was in the Congress. Johnson can read men pretty well, and he read that it was time for a change there. f: Did he ever really consider anybody besides Clark Clifford as far as you know? C: Yes. He considered several people. I think

Oral history transcript, A. Scheffer Lang, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

this along From what live read, one of the great purposes of the Department of Transportation is safety. in this area--transportation safety? L: Has DOT made any gains Or is it too soon? I think it has made some gains, but it would probably be going

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and, then, eventually get everything in one package. In fact, that's the way all the government agencies and departments have been created. M: As you can tell, if you read the organization book one time. G: Definitely. M: Then the Congress, in this case, went

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

countries; problems, the Defense Department,-F: You must have spent a lot of time both listening and reading? H: Oh, yes. Every department in government which has anything overseas has a tremendous amount of briefing. F: Now, you arrived there in mid

Oral history transcript, Harold J. Russell, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

training and proper rehabilitation people can take their place in industry and business and government and become successful regardless of handicap, either physical or mental. P: In my reading they have talked about the expansion and reconstitution

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

. But in the books, in the way it read and the job description business, I was special assistant to the Secretary of Labor for legislative affairs. It was easy enough to sort of smudge a title into assistant to the secretary for legislative affairs

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 Q: Through 1965, yes. G: I have read comments to the effect that in 1964 the administration ramrodded the bill through the committee. statements. People have made these I think some committee members made

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

thing about the politics of Texas, except that it's awfully confusing . And I never had any difficulty, because of their record, in believing that both Mr . Johnson and Mr . Yarborough were fine, outstanding, public servants . Yet just reading

Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

agencies represented . M: I read somewhere that in a typical embassy, eighty percent of the people working there would not be working for the State Department . I've forgotten whose figures those were, but that's an example-W: That's not at all unusual

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that, because it's--I hate to say of others that they didn't see what I saw so clearly. I had grown up with agencies that were independent authority type agencies, and I'd read enough about history to realize that they were spawned at a time that they were anti

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in that. I read it, and Mrs. Bolling did, too, and I ' m pretty sure that it's not accurate. M: He just doesn't go deep enough into the--? B: I don't think he knew enough. Sadly enough, because this is what didn't do me a damned bit of good. Probably

Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wozencraft -- IV -- 25 of fairly concentrated thinking--the meditating kind of thing where you read and think. And one of the things that really struck me as serious was that there was so little interchange between the private sector

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 15 (XV), 8/30/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the Marine Corps strength at a projected level. This was something that the administration opposed and it passed by one vote. J: No> I don't. G: It's June 20> at the bottom of page 28. J: I do remember it now that I read about it. Do you recall

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

grant program--but I've been away from there for a number of years, but I still read the papers and I know of no federal grant program that's ever done that since. G: To what extent did Lyndon Johnson and the Democrats in the Senate cooperate

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

didn't hand it to me with instructions. I knew what he was saying: "Read through before I even consider it and see if it's clean on the racial end; see if I can afford to introduce it. See if I can afford to be a sponsor. And then we'll go to the merits

Oral history transcript, Helen and Seth W. Dorbandt, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the convention read the names of the Executive Committee nominations from each district, her name was not on it. They substituted liberal names for hers and all over the state, they did that. HD: I wish I knew the name of the woman in Huntsville--I wouldn't say

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 6 (VI), 3/4/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

, and he gave you a copy, and he gave me a copy. So I have read that and I am familiar with that in outline. I understand that since then he has also given you a copy of correspondence between you and Mrs. Johnson and I haven't seen that. So some

Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/oh and then the Congress can make an intelligent judgment. B: You know, an outsider reading the newspapers at that time got the opinion that a good deal of Congress' activity was motivated either by emotional reasons or political reasons

Oral history transcript, Leo Gehrig, interview 2 (II), 3/21/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of what she was experiencing in the African country in which she was a volunter. Unfortunately, the card was read by local nationals and it became a very delicate international incident. Well, you can imagine with this sort of a background the concerns

Oral history transcript, Stuart Symington, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. No, I don't knew why he selected [Edwin] Johnson, [John] Stennis, and [Sam] Ervin. This is something interesting (reading an outline): "Senator [Arthur] Watkins wrote that LBJ urged the senators to delete from the censure resolution the charge

Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in Mexico at the time and looking at this election campaign very much from a distance. I did, however, receive a letter from him while I was still in Mexico saying he had read The Uncertain LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

along \'Iith the U.N. resolution on Rhodesia.· We still sell them food because we don't read the U.N. resolution as advocating starvation, because it's starvation for the whites as well as the blacks. F: Right. While we're on the subject of food

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at the University of Pittsburgh and later at Harvard, got this notion called the tipping theory, and it read very, very, very impressive. The only trouble with it is, it's like the theory that there is a time when if your temperature gets to be a certain amount

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Yes. Well, I've read, heard, and been told that Lyndon Johnson was a master politician. That is, he knew how to pull strings to get legislation through. He knew who to see and what levers to pull and so on. G: Now, you've been a congressman

Oral history transcript, Najeeb E. Halaby, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, particularly in the New York papers, that I had quit in order to take a job with Pan American, and that Johnson somehow was opposed to this. Anyway, the ceremony went off very nicely, and the President read some remarks that Valenti and Busby had prepared

Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that, you still had no response from the President or the White House staff? M: No, sir. [I] never received any response whatsoever. It was somewhat disturbing, knowing that every time you looked at the television and you read news reports about what