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Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PARTEN -- II -- 13 Yarborough's house and tells how great Ralph Yarborough is and all the opposition melted away. P: I know nothing of that except what I've read in the papers

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Johnson, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the way Lyndon was at all. He spent all of his time reading old history and talking politics. He · ·. _: :_ talked politics all the time. Nobody wanted to hear him, but he talked anyway, and he kept up on all of the senators and representatives, as his

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 3 (III), 5/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

my coffee, and he had read in the paper where I had said that there would be a thirty-billion-dollar deficit in that year. He wanted me to come by the White House. I could tell he was angry. So I stopped by on the way to work, and I told him

Oral history transcript, Clinton P. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

"Well, how would you like to pick up the Washington paper tomorrow and read that Lyndon Johnson had died in the home of his best friend?" And his face got sort of white, and he went over to the telephone, a wall phone, and tried to get a doctor

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

impressions and recommendations for the future . These lectures are going to be in book form. M: I was going to say, I've read your earlier collection of things . B: This is a new one, this is going to be published . Johnson, who's the President's

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and perhaps others that are fairly widely read--a few. But for the most part the American citizen was given the impression we had suffered some sort of defeat in the TET offensive, when indeed we did not. F: Is this just some sort of reportorial blindness

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 4 (IV), 10/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the White House-- F: Your only idea of there being any kind of a flap there was what you read in the papers. U: That's right. But the final conversation, the final two telephone calls, and this was within a matter of an hour from the time the President

Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 3 (III), 1/21/70, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on? You read this, of course; this is a favorite columnist--particularly if the party they don't favor is in power and they say that the White House pressure is intolerable? Is it intolerable? Can it be made intolerable? K: I think it can for certain

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, the President wanted me to make, in the wake of their having read newspaper stories, seen the congressional reaction, seen our backgrounder, to call them, which I did, and they indicated that there was no give in each of my calls and I notice I got to. . . . I

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

date, what had you heard about then-Senator Johnson in preparation for appearing for his committee? P: Of course, you always get the usual briefings on senators before you go up so you won't make too many mistakes. I'd been told, and I had read

Oral history transcript, Rufus W. Youngblood, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 19 (XIX), 4/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and projections that would lead into 1968 in the primaries. It was a full plate. A number of White House staff people were brought in by direct assignment and direct involvement into the promotion of the program. G: One of the press articles that I read in 1967

Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

complex system. But we've done a big patchwork job, and, as I say, this isn't enough. (reads a document) Oh, this is the distribution of the different departments and agencies involved in biomedical research. If you take medical services it's even broader

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Huitt -- II -- 27 consideration. So Gardner had this kind of admiration for the President. Toward the end of his tenure, if the relationships were strained as I read they were strained--I

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 12 (XII), 4/25/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it? at the Ranch, if I'm not mistaken, by herself. servants. I do not know. Mrs. Johnson was I believe not even any Am I right? G: That's page 28 [of the 1952 chronology]. J: I haven't read it, but he landed in a rather dangerous landing and picked her

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the administration shouldn't give in to this kind of pressure that Abernathy and the marchers were applying? F: He never said that to my recollection; again, I'd have to go back and read this section. I'd be interested myself. You know, you never really knew why he

Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

it?" There is the opportunity, you see, for the new administration to say yea or no or maybe or, I~e don't know at this point and we think, therefore, that you ought to advise the agencies that ahe administration has not yet formulated a position." M: I had occasion to read

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

President he wasn't able to do that. M: Did you ever see any indication of there being friction between the staffs of Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson, or between the two men? Between the two men, I did not see any friction although you read stories about

Oral history transcript, Fredrick L. Deming, interview 3 (III), 2/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

if I'd been running it I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing. Each month it sort of looked as though you were going to get it, and so they'd sort of defer their tightening-up policy. I think the Federal's major sin was reading what everybody

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

were all visible. But everyone knew what they were because if you read the 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, A. Ross Eckler, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

their ability to comprehend instructions and to read maps and things of that sort, they are not acceptable. B: Regardless of the political power behind them? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org E: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

you have to do is read Turner Joy's book Go back a little further and there is the history of Manchuria in 1931. But there is only one language which these people understand, and their time clock runs totally different than ours. And I believe

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

first of all something visible. there, and in that way it's blameable. It's organized. It's There have been numerous eruptions of emotion on the part of many.9roups of people. I read just the other day welfare recipients in New York City

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

was willing to give up the Majority Leadership to be a Vice Presidential candidate. P: In other words, if I read you correctly, it was almost necessary for him to be the Vice Presidential candidate in order to win the race. If he LBJ Presidential Library

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

: Particularly in participation of the poor in the program. H: That's right. And he just recently made a statement as a matter of fact along those lines that I just read in the press within the last couple of days. He said he felt that the Nixon

Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

under the bridge since then. L: I remember what you quoted because it was published and therefore I read it and reread it in proof, etc. I think the main thrust of Johnson's advice, which is one that we followed, was that our problem

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

are demanding. We're getting some of that in the South. But if you listen to what they're saying and read what they're saying, the blacks in the South are not demanding all black schools. integration that's real, that works both ways. They're demanding

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

around. I've read that one of the things that O'Brien did that was particularly effective was to coordinate the congressional liaison in the departments and the agencies and, for that matter, the private lobbyist types. that correct? Is LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lewis Mayhew, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

. This is a--this sort of thing that at given times are bad for us--a kind of mushroom effect. You give a speech one place, and three other places want you to come to their place. Or you write a paper and people read it, and they want you to come and consult with them

Oral history transcript, Clarence S. Redford, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, and they're all steadfast. M: He seemed to have a-- R: I don't know. There's something. There is something. He likes people, and they like him. He's awfully hard on people, I read, I'm told, and I'm sure he is. M: He seemed to have had the capacity

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 3 (III), 7/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Christmas? He had only been in office about a month . He saw it coming, and he was going to have to make up his mind because he had read all the commitments and knew all the =7-vi tments . He felt like he was committed to it . G: Do you think that he

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

if they'd really wanted to. But it was hard to read the corps. I am not as critical of the corps on this fee matter as most of my colleagues were. I think I understand their problem better and they had real problems. Mc Did you get opposition from

Oral history transcript, Richard G. Stilwell, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

forth. So we had a hiatus there of about two years, where the Vietnamese armed forces really played second fiddle to the deployment, employment, support of the U.S. ground forces. Max Taylor's cables, you know, that you let me read, and I had forgotten

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 5 (V), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Rivers’ defeat or for Gruenings' defeat? Or do you think those are just local-- U: No, no, the Rampart Dam was not a crucial factor in their defeats. Now, as I read it, it was owed to other factors. Gruening was very critical of me. He never said

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

notes here, "More money" and--I can't read it. But he obviously wanted more money in these program for needy children LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, M. J. Anderson, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1984, by Roland B. Hayes (Item)

a little bit early in 1965--I think that should be read by everybody. It's one of the greatest speeches that I have heard. Let 20 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http

Oral history transcript, Harold Howe II, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a difficult time answering Mrs. Green's questions on the subject in hearings before the House committee. She wasn't about to let this fancy fired juggling scheme supplement the solid dollars of NDEA--and she didn't. M: According to what I've read and heard

Oral history transcript, James Sundquist, interview 1 (I), 4/7/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)