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Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • a relatively small staff in those days. In those days Congress stayed in session only about five months out of the year, six at the most. They'd be home by June. Most of them had left their families at home, they didn't establish residences in Washington
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • no political motivation whatsoever. B: Not for television consumption? G: No, sir. I think that he did have a very deep conviction at this point. I'm not sure where it originated. I do not know what influences. You would do that in your research, find out
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • that I didn't the advantage of. When I was about in the fifth grade then the era of consolidation hit the one-teacher schools. The three one-teacher schools were put together at the crossroads a little farther away from home, and called the Crossroads
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • : Hello! CULBERT: Hello, George Christian? CHRISTIAN: CULBERT: Yes, sir. This is David Culbert calling from Baton Rouge. couple of questions? Now, is this a convenient time? May I ask you a I know that you are leaving the country tomorrow
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • and is completely immobile and invocal and Vernon spends all of his time taking care of her. He has her in a nursing home but he's with her now. R: The next name is Lyndon Johnson and I think it would be appropriate because of the fact that he was prominent
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • of the money that we raised. It wasn't big money. D: In other words, she gave ten thousand and her father gave twenty-five thousand? C: Yes, sir, you got it damn right. D: Now, that's interesting. I had never heard that before. C: Well, I'm telling you
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • , seemed very friendly and then he said, "That speech that I delivered, that wasn't the speech I asked you to write, was it?" And I said, "No sir, not really." And he said, "You mind telling me why?" And I said, "Well, Mr. President, I thought
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • , Kauai. Today's date is Monday, March 9, 1987. We are in Mr. Von Holt's living room. Herman, I'm delighted to be in your home and to have this opportunity to tape record your memories of what it was like to grow up in Hawaii and then to go away to school
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • , Kauai. Today's date is Monday, March 9, 1987. We are in Mr. Von Holt's living room. Herman, I'm delighted to be in your home and to have this opportunity to tape record your memories of what it was like to grow up in Hawaii and then to go away to school
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • , Kauai. Today's date is Monday, March 9, 1987. We are in Mr. Von Holt's living room. Herman, I'm delighted to be in your home and to have this opportunity to tape record your memories of what it was like to grow up in Hawaii and then to go away to school
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • , Kauai. Today's date is Monday, March 9, 1987. We are in Mr. Von Holt's living room. Herman, I'm delighted to be in your home and to have this opportunity to tape record your memories of what it was like to grow up in Hawaii and then to go away to school
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • this country is threatened with division and the President of the United States says you are the only man who can save it, you won't say no, will you? He said ..No, Sir." I had great respect for Warren. And from that moment on I was a partisan of his. r LBJ
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 Mr. Jorden: Well, you got rid of him pretty quickly? Presiden t: Yes, sir, just as soon as I could. mont.'1s, but it was one of the first things I did. It took
Oral history transcript, Inez Hughes, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • and a great grandfather in the county before Texas became a state. So I was reared in the area of the plantation of my great grandfather, who came in 1839. It was just logical to want to come home to teach after I had taught at Terlingua and Karnes City
Oral history transcript, Josefa Baines Saunders, interview 1 (I), 12/28/1964, by Juanita Roberts (Item)
  • : And then - - I don't know -- they came out here to live, you see . Mrs . Roberts : Mrs . Saunders: Mrs . Roberts: Well, now -­ They came on out here. They did Mrs . Saunders: Uh huh . Mrs. Roberts: Mrs. Saunders: Did they marry there in your home
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • was recorded in 1968 at Mr. White's home in Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 W: Now, gentlemen, we are discussing here, as I understand it, the activity of President Johnson when he was Texas director of the National Youth Administration in Texas during
Oral history transcript, Harry Schreiber, 1964, interview 1 (I) (Item)
  • up there together. Two Texans away from home. I: How did he find out you were from Texas? S: He knew somehow..• He just came and asked me where I was from and I said, "Galveston, Texas," and he sat there and we kidded just awhile and etc
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • of things? LC: My memory goes back to when he was in his vice-presidential years, when I went to work for him. But at that time there was a little house in Johnson City, his boyhood home, and already he and Lady Bird were trying to fix it up because
  • LBJ purchasing and renovating the Boyhood Home; LBJ's interest in providing public access to his homes and his papers; LBJ's intended purpose for the Library; comparing the LBJ Presidential Library with other presidential libraries; the importance
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • but it would have been shortly after. I know that I visited him before he became president, several times at his home. I worked with him some in his capacity as vice president, because the President assigned to him two or three activities that in some fashion
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • you get those memos that . . . ? FLEMING: I did, yes, and I must confess I'm not sure whether they are here on my desk or at home. I looked for them day before yesterday and couldn't . . . to do some more thinking and preparation. We had a great
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)
  • Jordan, Texas state senator from 1966-1972, congresswoman from Houston from 1972-1978. In Congress she made a national impact with her incisive questioning during the Watergate hearings. She came home to Texas to Austin, the University of Texas, in 1979
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)
  • utta was _a cultu ral shock , and · when I look back on it, it wa~ proba bly one of the most diffi cult perio ds of adjustm~nt; I think proba bly I grew up and becam e an adult durin g the years that I was in Calc utta. was v~ry I home
Oral history transcript (conversation), Lyndon B. Johnson and Ted Sorensen, interview S-VIII, 6/3/1963 (Item)
  • rights and, see, have a bunch of Dernccrats speaking cons ntly in the Senate and some in the House, leaving the Democratic Party with an image of anti-NE-1gro. Now, I don't think that necessarily needs to be. \'/e I think that g•)t to do our home
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • the Congress calls for its own adjournment. T: Well, was he thinking he would just wear the Congress down and they'd finally get tired and say, "Let's go home." B: Saying, "Let's go home. Let's forget it." T: Will you explain-- B: But the other point
Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)
  • were only a few blocks apart, and I used to: pick him up every morning on the way to work and carry hira home H e~~ry night. I saw i;'. ! !~ him when he was fresh, and I saw him when he wasi ·:l weary after a long !fi i~ i:: LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • , but it wasn't his own home country in the same way [it was] proving to Larry O'Brien that he could count the Senate better than O'Brien could; that was easy. D: What about his relationship with you and [Secretary of Defense, Robert] McNamara, [Secretary
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • a par t of the whole lea rni ng pro­ cess so tha t they might continue it at home aft er it was ove r, tha t [th ey] migh t get some sense of wha t the Head Sta rt_ group was try ing to do. And the oth er [group were brought in] wit hou t _mothers
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • different--but three first-rate people to show you that it is possible for a woman to really do something. That really brought home to me the impact that, in a different way than I had thought of before, of that job because I still [inaudible] I think
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dr. Arthur Harris, interview S-I, 7/10/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • of college universityf ~i . Ci facilities . J. r; locat~d J_ ( · ~' in the Housing and Home Finance Agency , which was VOICE: 21 I specialists at that time? l ll DR. HARRIS: 1 ! VOi CE: C1/ 1. ;1 DR. HARRIS: f .. .~ 1I I Did you have
  • on separate divisions; federal financial assistance; Housing and Home Finance became HUD; fiscal management specialists; civil rights; nurses training; Title II National Education Act; Title V of ESEA tied in with Office of National Education; fear of federal