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Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be visible in the staff positions, the appointive positions, and reflected in the kind of humor that they use on both. sides. The President has his people, and of course Humphrey had his little set of people, and Bob had his, inherited and some new ones. I

Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in tomorrow," and I did. letter was there. All right, my Russ Blandford who was afterwards executive of the Armed Services Committee--Bob Smart was at that time--worked on our committee; Russ is a retired Marine Corps major general now. The old man went

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--and again, I'm just guessing, because I was not involved in that--that this was something that perhaps senator Bob Kerr might have workedout.He was very prominent in the whole space· area, as of course was Lyndon Johnson. But I don't know how that worked

Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in the Senate in those days was particularly close to Johnson? T: The late Bob Kerr of Oklahowa was very close to him and so was Senator Clinton Anderson. There were a great number of senators who were close to Senator Johnson. close to him. Senator

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 3 (III), 5/26/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

came back. The next tweaking of the eagle's tail was just before Christmas when they blew up the Brink. That was that hotel Bob Hope said was coming in the other way when he was coming into town. deaths and so on, right in the heart of Saigon

Oral history transcript, Robert Lampman, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

interest and big push in those first years was the innovative tax cut of what he had hoped would be early 1963 and which ended up being 1964, as the date of its beginning. But he was certainly well geared up in his own thinking to the things to do after

Oral history transcript, Antonio J. Taylor, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and spend the night with Bob and Homer Haley. Usually permission wasn't granted. Something was about to happen. This time it was granted promptly. So when we came back the next day we had a sister. M: Were you delighted to have a sister or were you much

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that campaign was going you know, although he hoped for the best. spoken out innnediately and forthrightly. But no, I think he should have I would have said, "Regardless of the truth or lack of truth of these charges, this man is my long-time friend and still

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: No, I don't think they preferred to disbelieve; I think they preferred to ignore it and hope that they could get by, but they couldn't. F: Did you get the feeling in your meetings with Senator Johnson that this was a political hot potato

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

of people come to be? Was it just interested parties, or was there somebody who would choose and pick people to come to this? S: I was not involved in that. No one from our department participated. We knew about its existence, that's all. Bob Lampman

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on as a handicap to the ticket? M: Not at all. He was a tremendous asset in our part of the world and -------- frankly in the face of that Our despair, or our confidence that he would not run reflected a despair on our part, not a point of hope-Oh

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

? There was wild confusion on the I heard two of the shots. bus~ as there was every place else. I was sitting next to Bob Pierpoint of CBS. F: It came in clearly over the noise of the crowd? R: Well, not so clearly. point. There was not a lot of crowd noise

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 23 rarely got in. The Secretary of the Treasury had a little easier access, and Dean Rusk got in any time he wanted to, and Bob McNamara got in any time he wanted

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

didn't see him to lobby. F: In 1956 at the convention there seems to have been a very faint hope that the convention might deadlock between Stevenson and Harriman and that Johnson might be offered as a compromise candidate. Were you aware of that? P

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

Americans, Jewish Americans, and I got the feeling that they were no different than I was. And I sure hope that they feel now that I was no different than they were. I believe that the world war was the beginning of the tearing down of these tremendous

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh McLean -- I -- 20 great hopes for him. The timing of it was something over which we had no control. Stevenson had made an attractive, intriguing candidate and he had lost in was entitled to it. '52~ he wanted another shot

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] hanging out. Then this other part of him said, "This is impossible. Why get my hopes up? fail." More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, of course, listened to their comments and their comments were positive on what he said he hoped to enact. F: Did he find them fairly useful in legislative liaison? s: Yes, I think . . . F: I mean, could they touch a certai n group that maybe he wasn't

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Now I tell you, I can't mention anything current because a pall sets on the audience, and it's no longer funny. I'm hoping for an election year when I can get back and get a little more of a barbed tongue there. F: And at least be able to work

Oral history transcript, Harry Ashmore, interview 1 (I), 1/31/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Institutions. We were putting on a big international convocation in New York, which was coming up the following year, where we hoped to bring the Russians in. In fact we did finally bring the Russians in, and a lot of people from the UN; it was sort of held

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)