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Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: September
  • Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: July 15, 1983
  • Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Willis - -II- - 6 worked in that campaign? W: After the second primary it became very difficult because of course as you know, in 1948 Harry Truman made a stand for civil rights. And of course
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh INTERVIEW II DATE: October 21
  • Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the plane at seven o'clock that morning, he was dozing and Lady Bird was reading a book. my books out of my little case and began to read. Lady Bird asked me, "Betty, what are you reading?" Il m just studying a lesson. II So I slipped In a few minutes
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out a job. II Up until then the only vice president we'd known, really, was [Alben] Barkley, who made fun of the job a lot, and Nixon, who we didn't really know much about. So, we didn't think of Dad as standing around in black tie at ceremonial
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hotel suite. generally wound up That party about three o'clock, and then at seven in the morning we were up and at it again. So it was a very tiring week. Betty \vould say, "How fI --she will imitate a Texas accent. BH: How'r you. Daddy. II Ahm
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • her morality but I obviously get indignant the same way. And to hear, for instance, that at the end of World War II the French government first promised Ho Chi Minh that they would stay out and allow the country to be free, and then they secretly
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ' Not really with my decision to do it, although certainly ,·,ithout his approval I know that I wouldn't have been permitted to come in. the way that that arose is this. Actually, During World War II when I was with the Army Air Corps in the Air Transport
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Mercury under H. L. Menken. He really was the godfather of the book. Henry wanted some other things. He suggested, IIWhen you get all these things together, you talk to me, and weill get out a book. II I wrote some of the additional pieces he wanted
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to think about that. II And he had a certain place on his desk we'd put it, and as long as it stayed on that part of the desk, you knew he was still thinking about it. F: Is he pretty good himself at shuffling papers, getting things out of the way
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • paid teenagers in our neighborhood: "Well, we only pay them fifty cents." Luci's response was, "I would hope that's what you'd say, because that's what my friends get. II But not knm·ting how many hours had been involved, we gave her five dollars
Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , "What did you hit him for?" are the law officers on these planes. Cause the co-pilots And I said, "I hit him because he said that Bobby Kennedy was a son-of-a-bitch. II I said, "If you want me to hit you, I'll do that, too." I bruised three
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . Don't tell me, I know you can't keep coming here with all these people wanting you, but I just want you to know." So he surprised me. He called me up and said, "1'11 be out there. II So he came, and he made a speech--each one of these speeches just
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • time there. II was kidding, and he took it seriously. I About a month afterwards, he was President.' B: Some people say that he really doesn't have much of a sense of humor. D: I don't think he has when it comes to him, although he's one
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • serving in this position since 1961. Is that correct? "\1: Since July 1961. M: You were an appointee, then, of President Kennedy and served through the entire Johnson Administration. W: Yes. ~II: For many years you were associated IVi th various
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 1 (I), 1/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and I was involved in the litigations during the period of 1961 to 1964. B: I know that Attorney General Kennedy on occasions used what he called a "team approach II in various matters in the Justice Department where people, regardless
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • would not mean oblivion . Although we couldn't carry it all out, it fulfilled a very big function . The Germans could have fought for perhaps two more years if it hadn't been for that . During World War II, outside of the vague "four freedoms" we
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , you've just got to go out there." And the Vice President said, "ttr. President, I don't want to embarrass you by getting my head blown off in Saigon. But fi nally they di d make the tri p and he took the Smiths II with him--Stephen and Jean Smith
Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on, philosophied on that I assume--I forget now what he told me. on. II But I knew then not to--you know, say yes, sir and go head A lot of time I know it being just the opposite of what he would say, but I never argue with him because he was the type of guy
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , "You kno1-1 , this is a real error. don't debate \
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the line of, ''When we get in, we wi 11 do this, you're included in the S: Surely. II and you just assume that '~e"? ''When we get in, we've got to move fast on wheat," or, ''We've got to move fast on feed grains and cotton." One simply knows