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Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Roger Jones, or it would have been Sam Hughes. After that, it probably would have been Jim Fry. I'm just not clear at the particular time which of these officers really were there, but that’s about right, and their officer was also a career officer like

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Rovere, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. R: Yes. He was certainly a kind of favorite. I think Hugh Sidey may have' been something of a favorite. M: Until he wrote a book. R: Until he wrote a book. Well, the book was just the stuff that appeared in Life, wasn't it? M: I understand

Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

in Washington, and I was absolutely incredulous. It was a terrible shock. The other co-chairman of SANE was Stuart Hughes, professor of history at Harvard. With the two executives of SANE and us two co-chairmen, we cooked up a very indignant telegram

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

party, but the national party. I believe that when Mr. Daley, if he was involved, and Mr. Hughes and Hubert Humphrey, when this group decided that they would throw out the Maddox delegation in order to let the whole country see that they were totally

Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 2 (II), 5/1/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

in the sense that obviously, they disagreed sharply on the war and on a num- ber of other things. But I wasn't prepared for the account in Time--which £lame as quite a surprise because I had talked to some Time reporters about it. I don't know where Hugh

Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a shiboleth? Is there some real reason behind it, and similarly my impression is that the Bureau of Intelligence Research, Tom Hughes, does some sort of examination . M: So, I think the assumption of these scholars is that the conventional wisdom gets

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a call from Dick Helms to come on back and see if the deal still stood; and it was left that the deal still stood. And everybody was happy. Except then Bud Wheelon was--and I can't blame Bud--he was offered the position of vice president of Hughes, and he

Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

think it would have been too tender and painful an occasion for her; Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, her mother, represented her. We had a gathering of about 200 people. very appropriate and moving statement. Mrs. Johnson made a George Hartzog, the Director

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

my own beat covering civil rights. Later I would cover labor, and along the way I became the number two or number three man on the White House behind Hugh Sidey. And that gave me an opportunity on occasion when Sidey was not there to go to the White

Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to the LBJ Ranch; Hugh Sidey

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

; 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions; Walter Jenkins; Goldberg suggesting that LBJ take the oath of office in Dallas from Judge Sarah Hughes after the JFK assassination; appointment to Court of Appeals; Court of Appeals procedures from 1966-1969

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

And so he really had to do an awful lot of base touching down in Texas. G: Another thing he did quite a bit during the course of the legislation was he was in contact with Noah Dietrich and Howard Hughes. I wonder if that had anything to do

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it was JFK's destiny to become president; Robert Weaver's and Sarah Hughes' appointments.

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Hughes at the Bureau of the Budget to find out what their budget situation was and whether about three hundred thousand dollars could be made available for the planning studies. He indicated he'd get going with it and see what could be found. The next day

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Barkan (labor), Jim Rowe, Max Kampelman, John Hoving, Claude Desautels, Bob Squire, Mike Murray, Ed Cubberly, Bruce Solomonson, Tom Hughes, Jim Thornton, Norman Sherman, Burt Bennett who is a citizens fellow, Ted Van Dyk and my good friend, Dr. Edgar

Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Senator Hugh Scott, a Philadelphia senator who was a member of the Judiciary Committee, claims that he worked it out. I know that Nick Katzenbach worked with the committee. Nick was then I believe deputy attorney general, and he had charge of these. But I

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

covered East Texas with Wright. They went to Paris and the Lone Star Steel Plant and Hughes Springs, Linden, Atlanta, Texarkana, Jefferson. Meanwhile, Lyndon talked on the phone with [Richard] Russell trying his best to get Russell to come out

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 4 (IV), 4/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

by effective police training and control. Up until the Detroit riots--now at Newark, while we were in constant communication with--I was--with Governor Hughes particularly, and with some of his people, and while we had observers active all the time, we never

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: The Agriculture Department to this day I guess is conflicted. Again, Orville Freeman was secretary of agriculture, very dedicated. His deputy, Tom [Thomas R.] Hughes, was very dedicated. They hired as their equal employment opportunity officer my deputy when I

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

enough to know that anyone can give an oath, even a notary public. and then she did it. He got in touch with Judge Hughes So we were really intimately involved with that. M: Maybe you can answer a question that's rather mysterious. seems to know

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Egan, the governor , and Ralph Rivers, the representative in Congress. F: On that trip I was telling you about Ralph Rivers was with us. G: Ralph Rivers was there and Hugh Wade; the Governor's secretary of state. He just made inquiries about

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

an adjunct of our office, particularly the office of legislative reference, which was then headed by Assistant Director Sam Hughes, who later became deputy director of the budget. From that first year's experience we found that we could not as a matter

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

does have an effect on the Court. That goes all the way back to Marshall. Back in those days the Chief Justice just ran the joint. But I think in the present time, you go down the line from Hughes, Stone, etc.--they left their print on their Court. I

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

was to spin off the program. Well, we had all this coming in from all over the country, and then we met with the House Education and Labor Committee and we gave each member of that majority a job to do. Like [Hugh] Carey, the present governor of New York, had

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be an occasional burst and McGovern was a pretty good target. It could be capsulized in a comment that I believe can be attributed to Senator Hugh Scott and repeated ad nauseum during the campaign. Scott said, "The McGovern campaign is the campaign of the three

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, it was not a large group? C: No. We organized a kind of marching and chowder society, which we called the Negotiations Group that consisted of Bill Bundy, Ben, Read, Joe Sisco·, and. Tom Hughes, and one or two others*-Gene Rostow, occasionally. But we decided

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

an influence on the President in making life easier for us and the things we were trying to do. There's another person or two who should be mentioned here within the Administration. under secretaries. Secretary Udall had some good And there was Sam Hughes

Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anything here that you recall in any detail. C: I recall that when Wayne Morse supported the Democrat nominee for president and deserted hi s own party that Senator [Hugh] Butl er of Nebraska advised against punishing him. His advice wasn't taken

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it until he told me about it--that is, until he, the director general, told me about it. And the net of it was that the State Department had been instructed by Murrow, the director of USIA, to go to the BBC and tell them they couldn't run it. I told Hugh

Oral history transcript, Charles Timmes, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. I went with the acting chief of station at that time, Hugh [Lewis] Latham [?]. G: What was his name, Latham? T: Lapham. L-A-P, Lapham. G: How did you go, by jeep? T: Yes. G: Have any problem getting to work? T: No, we managed. Maybe

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Director [Phillip] Sam Hughes. It's hard to remember exactly who was at what meeting. But the point is, here were about five different departments represented at the general counsel and undersecretary or deputy director level, pretty much. B: And a White

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on Johnson. He just didn't consider them to be ones that ought to be yielded to. I'm going to stop just a minute and check on some phone calls. LBJ speaks to Noah Dietrich. Is that the Howard Hughes' [aide]? G: Yes. M: That's interesting. G: Yes, I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

can start it." So I tried to sell this. F: He said okay? C: He said okay. He said, "Okay, you can do that, and we'll talk about it if you do that." So I talked to [Daniel Patrick] Moynihan about this, as I recall, and Sam [Phillip S.] Hughes, who

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and it was arranged by Mrs. Jimmie Allred, the wife of the former governor, and Judge Sarah Hughes addressed the group. We also went to a dinner where all the Harris County councilmen and commissioners and 6 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was there for some other reason, to discuss something that must have been coming up. I recall having the feeling that she was very much in doubt if what she said had been the right thing. Had she been strong enough? She kept talking about Betty Hughes, I remember

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 2 (II), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 6 (VI), 7/13/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)