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Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • would. He was very religious. Sometimes--oh, he did many interesting things. I remember one time we spent the night with them up at Camp David, and the next morning when my wife and I went over to the main house, he had the Attorney General
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • : Louann Temple PLACE: Unknown Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 T: . . . Mr. Biddle, one of the things I am curious about is that in the memos that I have read in 1964 when President Johnson first went into office, the aides and people outside of the office
Oral history transcript, Harry J. Middleton, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1979, by William C. Spragens (Item)
  • (from the staff) • · There was also ready access to prepare memos for his "night reading ". · We didn't want to abuse it, but it was there. He \>JOuld read it and respond . 7. Did you have occasio n to work with holdove r members of the Kennedy staff
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • stack of stuff on that table at home and my wife went through it and I went through . it and I read · wtth interest··sorne"of .my memos .that you -had xeroxed. CULBERT: What I would like to ask you about .is not the specifics o.f the memos but just
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
  • in the White House. I read that Frank Stanton gave a little bit of advice about it. It was set up in 1966 in July, but I wondered if anybody talked with you or you gave any thought to this ~Jhite House intervention of the Johnson era of having a machine
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • of 1964. I don't now know whether I actually stuck it in the night reading, or whether I didn't bother because it wouldn't get read. Probably the White House records would show it, although they might not; he might not have checked it. It might not turn up
Oral history transcript, Josefa Baines Saunders, interview 1 (I), 12/28/1964, by Juanita Roberts (Item)
  • : - -and we would go into Fredericksburg and at night we would go to a ll the country dances and , oh, we just had the time of my life. Of course, I was at that age where everything, you know , appealed t o you . Mrs . Roberts: Yes , and the young couple
  • Biographical information; Baines family; LBJ’s birth; George Johnson; The House and Furnishing; Ruth Amet Hoffman; Joseph Wilson Baines; Natural Breeze; Lyndon’s room; Mrs. Johnson reading to LBJ; move to Johnson City; Murphy Bed.
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • that normally the cattle, the farmers' cattle, grazed for free. So there was a great conflict that took place there, and the farmers were out at night cutting those fences. The ranchers had their fence riders and they had shootings from time to time. But bad
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 1 (I), 3/9/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • or seventy passengers. It took six nights on the boat to get to San Francisco and the smell of the raw sugar coming up from the hold because they were carrying 15,000 tons of sugar, it made a lot of people sick but I love sugar smells so it didn't make me
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • or seventy passengers. It took six nights on the boat to get to San Francisco and the smell of the raw sugar coming up from the hold because they were carrying 15,000 tons of sugar, it made a lot of people sick but I love sugar smells so it didn't make me
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 3 (III), 3/11/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • or seventy passengers. It took six nights on the boat to get to San Francisco and the smell of the raw sugar coming up from the hold because they were carrying 15,000 tons of sugar, it made a lot of people sick but I love sugar smells so it didn't make me
Oral history transcript, Herman Von Holt, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Michaelyn Chou (Item)
  • or seventy passengers. It took six nights on the boat to get to San Francisco and the smell of the raw sugar coming up from the hold because they were carrying 15,000 tons of sugar, it made a lot of people sick but I love sugar smells so it didn't make me
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • commission. RUSSELL: Oh, you have already? JOHNSON: Yes. And I've got--may I read it to you? RUSSELL: Yes. JOHNSON: The President announced that he is appointing a special commission to study and report upon on all the facts and circumstances relating
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview S-I, 6/30/1988, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • , during the day, as well as Dorothy Nichols and Herbert Henderson. And then we'd work at night when the office was basically closed after six o'clock, and write the letters. I would at times write as many as eighty letters a night myself, typing them
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Carpenter -- Special Interview -- 3 the Library, that part of it [for studying] the archives[the Reading Room]--is now heavily occupied. And I can remember for the first few weeks
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • is writing it. Caro hasn't reached the point where he's written on the period of Johnson's life that I know. But what he has written on, much of it doesn't ring true to me, at least not as a balanced appraisal. I haven't read your book thoroughly, but from my
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • -or that I would want to be on the ticket as vice president. That night he called me and said he wanted to see me [this is 1960-H. M.]. He came in and said he wanted me on the ticket. I said, "You want a good majority leader to help you pass your program." I
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • think I read this or heard it some- where--that he reached his state quota, his assigned mission so far as processing these youngsters, that's a rather harsh word, but taking care of these youngsters, quicker than anybody in the country. Is this true
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • : Do you have any idea how much the other candidates spent in that campaign, because I've read that Polk Shelton spent between forty and fifty thousand dollars in that campaign? C: I don't think Polk Shelton--and I knew him real well, he was a friend
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview S-I, 6/12/1973, by Robert Hawkinson (Item)
  • the airpla ne and fly back to Washington at two o'clo ck in the morning. I thoug ht it was ridicu lous and we ought to spend the night , but Califano is ., LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • . We'll get to that maybe individually later on. I can think of two or three. R: As I said this is very informal and we haven't--while Horace at our annual meeting the other night in San Marcos stimulated a lot of discussion about the old timers
Oral history transcript, Walter Mylecraine, interview S-I, 7/12/1968, by Jan Sofokidis (Item)
  • wants l! 13 l to go I I 1 4­ I .;­ >OkP,y o so I~m~oncerned in reading 15 16 j_ 'i 18 19 20 I I \ : '.! ! ; i i j I i; ,' l . '! 2 ~) J _, 1 I .; 2 J. 2 ~S 24 d eputy ~ as I raca ll it, on the I f
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview S-I, 7/18/1968, by John Singerhoff (Item)
  • "h-'i th whor:i I uas in the) ·fight was l re~line Especially since th9 I th9 s3.r.;e Nr. Willis I _to whom I referred earlier as a r...e!Tlber of President Kennedy's panel. Ev~n· ?:1ore especially since I had to sit up ver-;1 iate one night
Oral history transcript, Wayne O. Reed, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1968, by Broudy (Item)
  • brought him a note. :j In ali my life I h~d neve ! I! : I; Tears came to his : ~yes. "Presiden t He read it. and turned white. seen a person turn so white. Kennedy has been assassina ted," he said. He a~l[~urned . I once. the meeting a'~ . ·I
Oral history transcript, Inez Hughes, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • : Perhaps you'd tell us something about how you came to be a teacher at Marshall High School, just to give the people who read this tape some background about you. H: My roots are very deep in Harrison County. I had four sets of great-great grandparents
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh McGeorge Bundy -- Dallek Special Interview II -- 3 B: As I say, I can't reconstruct that. But if you read any one of the later quick books, you'll see that that's clearly what happened. And I can't honestly tell you in specific terms
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
  • but that they were going to face a guerrilla war and they weren't re;dly trained for guerrilla war. President: r think that's rig,ht and I think that President Kennedy 1 ea!i,v realized very H1 his administration and he discussed it with me, and he was reading
Oral history transcript, Cynthia Wilson, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1985, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • . It made it to places all over the country, so people did indeed read about her going to these places and in many cases take heart, in her praising some specific [inaudible] downtown renaissance. G: What about the Grand Canyon controversy in the mid-1960s
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)
  • should remembe r that this is essenti ally a transcr ipt of the spoken, rather than the written , word. RESTRICTIONS ( ( This oral history transcr ipt may be read, quoted from, cited, and reprodu ced for purpose s of research . It may not be publishe
Oral history transcript, W. Stanley Kruger, interview S-I, 8/13/1968 (Item)