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Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

felt like a guinea pig. done because I thought it was so silly. too that year. nominated. I really hated to have it But, you know, Sarah Hughes was nominated The Business and Professional Women's Clubs promoted having her Anyway, I was glad she

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 5 (V), 11/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

flew to Fort Worth with him to be with Amon Carter, and then he met with Sarah Hughes and spoke to the Texas Bar Association. This was right around the time of Sarah Hughes' nomination as a federal judge. R: Again, I mean this was just a routine

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh -12 The last year I was there is particularly interesting . India had had a very big crop in '67--and '68, too, a hugh crop ;--following these two disastrous droughts . When I went back to Washington on consultation I was asked how much

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

a foreign policy person, from about 19--well, really from 1955 on there was a person who dealt with the State Department and who was his foreign policy assistant. G: Who was that? C: Well, the first one, who came aboard the same day I did, was Tom Hughes

Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 3 (III), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Budget people there, but I don't know who they were. I don't remember them at all now. You got any indication that Sam was there? Sam Hughes. G: Sam Hughes? I don't recall his name, but there were people detailed from BOB I guess: Ann Oppenheimer

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. The chairman of the panel was Governor [Richard] Hughes of New Jersey; the vice-chairman of the panel was former Governor [William] Scranton of Pennsylvania; there were three insurance company presidents; Walter Washington, who was then in charge of the Housing

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 3 (III), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the outstanding places of major destruction and major violence. The mayor was Hugh Addonizio. I don't remember his politics; I think he was a Democrat. He was later, I think, in jail for corruption. But we walked the streets. I remember Kerner was there, Lindsay

Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 4 (IV), 11/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the cities. When Lindsay and I went into Newark, there was a fellow named [Hugh] Addonizio there who was the mayor of Newark, and we saw the misery of the place, the decay, the broken windows and the terrible housing, and no jobs, and the levels

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Somebody had to run the commercial banking system, and this was the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The first comptroller came from the state of Indiana, my own state. His name was [Hugh] McCulloch, that was his name, and he was an enormously

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- I -- 26 ferociously and didn't want anybody to catch him. I mean, I'm sure that story that [Hugh S

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (Item)

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as a lark. At the end of my senior year, when I had received my degree, I was appointed as a youngster to the faculty with the privilege of taking graduate study. I had no sooner started this when I got a telegram from Charles Evans Hughes, the Secretary

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1970, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

--was there as president of the National Governors' Conference, and Governor [Richard] Hughes of New LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 2 (II), 12/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

it recognizes that the real facts of the process do not exist, but in essence I would dare say people such as Governor [Richard] Hughes and people such as Bob Burkhardt and people such as Dave Wilentz of New Jersey, that there's never any question in their mind

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Sarah Hughes to get her appointed federal district judge. They were as strongly united on that appointment, for example, as they could possibly be. There was no argument--I think I'm right on this--there was absolutely no argument, for example, over

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of lawyers. As I say, it was I remember one other who was there, who was a crackerjack, and that's Hugh Cox, who I think had been Assistant Solicitor General, and he was a great lawyer. They had a whole group of lawyers there, and it was a brilliant job

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it got sensible and Abe Fortas and Hugh Cox, who's now down at Covington and Burling, were the two people who really did the work, seeing [Hugo] Black and getting it stayed. Two damn good lawyers. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

thought we should touch that base, so we did. I told Harris that I would see him and Bobby and they flew down in a private plane, and I took Hugh Cannon, who was then an aide in the campaign, later my director of administration, now my law partner

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

upon, it was an entirely different group. Judge Sarah Hughes in Dallas, Judge Leo Brewster in Fort Worth, Judge Noel, Jim Noel in Houston. and myself. Now I think that certainly there must have been some personality problems between the Vice President

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

Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

affect other conservation projects of the Johnson years, in which he took immense pride. So we had a meeting in the Cabinet room with Udall and I guess Sam Hughes from the Budget Bureau, and the President asked Clark Clifford to come--and Freeman may have

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

with much more authority about the Senate, because I was at that point a newcomer. Now I've been here twenty-eight and a half years. G: You had marshalled some of the writings of political scientists, too, [Hugh] Bone and Malcolm Jewell, to essentially

Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: And of course the outstanding contribution in these meetings from NASA You see, the whole Space Council membership was invited. was Hugh Dryden, Dr. Dryden, because at this time Mr. Webb was relying so heavily on Dryden--who had been in the business for so

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh McPherson -- Interview III -- 2 on. I think that's the view of most of the members of the regular White House press. There were some who were particularly close to Bill--Hugh Sidey, Pat Anderson, some of the younger reporters--who

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

handed to Judge [Sarah] Hughes for the swearing-in. I had no idea what happened to it. It had disappeared on the plane, I was told. Obviously, once the swearing-in was over, I made no effort to take the missal back or even note where it went

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 14 (XIV), 9/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was giving me a lecture on the subject. At which point Bill said, "Let's everybody get out there." We go and sit and, of course, Hugh Sidey and all these old friends of mine are in the front row; they're wondering what's going on. There's Gronouski, there's

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

remember that, [Nelson] Rockefeller winning the governorship from [Averell] Harriman. We were pretty well resigned to the fact that [Ernest] McFarland was going to lose. Everything I had heard had indicated that [Hugh] Scott was going to defeat [George

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. But this was an illustration, by the way--I think an important one--of the profound common sense approach of Johnson to national issues. I told this story, by the way, years later to Hugh Gaitskill in London. Gaitskill was then leader of the labor party. First of all, I called

Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Sarah Hughes, and I knew her very well. I had dealings with her before. And she gave Lyndon the oath of office. Then I guess he was up there two or three weeks or so, and he wanted me to come to Washington. So I finally went. And he was in a turmoil, you

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 9 (IX), 2/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the riots in 1968, Governor [Richard J.] Hughes told me that the city itself was very close to bankruptcy; they simply did not have the money from their tax revenues to undertake the projects that the situation following the riots required. This becomes more

Oral history transcript, Eugene C. Patterson, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

could talk frankly, he called in a pool of reporte rs into the Cabinet Room, and it was more or less a love, feast he staged, which I found persona lly demeani ng. That is to say, he called on his friends, like Governo r Hughes of New Jersey

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, John H. Crooker, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-panky going on here. And I think He thought that there But he was kind of a nut. I maybe made a mistake because I refused to see him, and my assi.stant Tom Hughes "' , f 22 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)