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Oral history transcript, Harfield Weedin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guess I did it much better then than I do now. I haven't been an announcer or air personality since I got out of Armed Forces Radio in World War II. think I'm that good. I had no desire to do it, because I don't If I thought I were that good, then I
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was a temperamental Irishman. F: I've never talked to any McCarthy enemies who didn't like him personally. G: I think that's true. I knew Joe before he ever came to Washington. I knew him when he came out of World War II and he used to come out to Arizona
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • helped him to suggest--he might tell Carl Albert, "Carl, I think you'd better go get this thing going. II He was very intimately acquainted -F: What I was thinking of, in case something happened to him, you would have been in line to move up
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • World War II. I'd' been there actually a little less than a year when I was asked to head up this new board. The history of that was I had had a major part in setting up the arrangements under the National Security Council, under President Truman
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • gave me a quizical look as though saying to himself, II I s thi s man with me or against me?" Then he smil ed ina ki ndly fashi on. There were interesting talks at the dinner, including cordial remarks by Chancellor Kiesinger and I returned to my
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about, the trip you are supposed--the thirteen states you are supposed--. II He said, "I don't know what you're talking about. That's the trouble with LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • around the door out there, but [there was] one I took down and now I think I had better put it back. II It was autographed, From Lyndon to Ma rsha 11 McNei 1, my fri end except where a story is concerned. II I thought that was about the finest
Oral history transcript, Samuel V. Merrick, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ire my man II Six months later, Goldberg became a Supreme Court justice and Wirtz became the secretary of labor. I don't know whether they talked about this comnitment, but I think I had every expectation that Wirtz was proceeding in that same
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • McGarr and said, "General, we won t be needing you I here, II which was rather abrupt. G: Do you have any insight as to what was behind that? N: Well, I'm sure the decision had been made that General McGarr would be transferred, but so far as I
Oral history transcript, Richard A. Prindle, interview 1 (I), 2/3/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • more near to the problem, would establish standards, and it would be agreed upon that, "This is what we want. II Then you. would have to go on to the eyen more difficult problem of saying, II Well , now this standard applies to our city. How do we
Oral history transcript, Logan Wilson, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • will be everyone's Congressman, but I will not be your personal, private Congressman. you. II I will work with you, but I will not work for And apparently, it hit the public fancy. But I must say, Joe, that if it had not been for television, I wouldn't have been
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 3 (III), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • industries been engaged in this sort of training? M: Oh, yes. You've had it all starting from the CCC days on through World War II when they had training courses for training some of the women workers that came into industry during World War II
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with NASA they'd be releasing stuff to the other services. The only commentary I would add is this. One of the things that happened to us was the same thing that happened to the Germans in World War II. That is, they started out with such an overwhelming
  • Ed Welsh and the adoption of a plan to land a man on the moon; early competition between military branches and their fear of releasing secrets to NASA; how U.S. dominance in air power during World War II led other countries to advance technology
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • yourself a communications jeep or something. But I want to be sure that I can get through and you can get through in case there's any important intelligence for me. II So, by golly, he called me up at least four or five times in the very short period
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, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape II 2 (Nov. 13, 1968, Nov. 14, 1968) A: I felt this was one of those times when it did make a difference who was the American chief representative in this mission--in this case, Sofia. That, quite possible, if I had been
  • Oral history transcript, Eugenie Moore Anderson, interview 2 (II), 11/13/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that you ought to get your fellow Texans to introduce the bill. If they want me to have my name on it, why, that ' II be fine, but it seems to me that you've got your men there." He said, "Well, of course, that's right. So LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Baker -- I -- 3 fourteen in January of 1943, which means that I met and had known and had gone through World War II with all the trials and tribulations of the war with Harry Truman and President
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --he was interested more in national affairs. P: Did this have to do with our entry into the beginning of World War II? B: No. P: This is too early. B: It had nothing to do with World War II. that time. You're right. We thought war was over
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • make just one last point, Harry. M: Alright. D: He knew the model Frank Roosevelt and FDR had been brilliant at building a consensus and moving toward involveme11t of World War II. Johnson was there. He had seen this; he understood it. He
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • started looking up and dmvn this table, and he said--"top \{hite House aide," that was what he said, IITop White House aide. II He looked up and down the table and he says, "If I ever find that son-of-a-bitch top White House aide, boy, I'm going to have
Oral history transcript, Harold Pachios, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a short distance away, not very far away. You've got some of the biggest mansions in the world at Bar Harbor." "Well," I said, II we don't know any of those people. II LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in the Senate when you got back there? E: II I We ha.d a new President- -of course everybody was shocked at the assassination. The Southerners were saying tha.t they were glad that a Southerner did not do it. F: Did 1964 present you with any problems
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • down pre-World War II. It had been badly managed and administered, so for that reason a lot of people in Congress also had reservations about it. So I called in some people in the department and worked them over a while and the general counsel said
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 3 (III), 7/2/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Plan, that we must not cast our pearls before swine. Those things began to fit together, and what you got the veterans, the young officers, guys who had been officers in World War II, lots of them were district attorneys, city attorneys, you know
Oral history transcript, Walter C. Hornaday, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh HORNADAY -- I -- 3 Franklin Roosevelt, and several things along that line. remember it, I made the remark, II And as I Lyndon , I don't exactly agree that one of the important
Oral history transcript, Alfred T. "Boody" Johnson, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Horton [?] Monday." He was a senior. him I was supposed to work with him. paper on the campus. II I went to O. D. and told He said, "Okay. We pick up So that's what we did; we had a stake and a sack just like you were picking cotton. G: Did LBJ
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • inclination at the outset was just to sort of play it by ear and see what they had in mind, and whether they were serious or not, because it really was not the kind of negotiation where you go in with a fi xed pos i t i on and say, II We 11, here's our
Oral history transcript, Jesse Kellam, interview 1 (I), April 1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • forced to drop out of school or lost the desire to go to , school, most of them because of financial situations, were placed in what we ca 11 ed res i dence centers. II II ~Je employed a 1ady tra i ned in the fundamentals of homemaking, usually
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Pygmalion, as it were, we probably contributed a few ideas that he adopted and did something with. B: K: B: When you say we ," you mean yourself, do you not? II I think you also were in on it. Well, in a slight sense, but you were the brains
Oral history transcript, Frank Denius, interview 1 (I), 6/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ,:L supported President Johnson in a~d then go Mlead from there. was then from Henderson a.lct I More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh t..~e 1948 election,. County, Texas, that's where my fami ly Ii
Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 3 (III), 4/16/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • , was known a round here as "Dr. Strangegrant. II Because each time we presented a proposal to Shriver for his signature the answer was, "Well, what have you nuts got cooked up for me now? In which funny papers am I going to land now?" As I say, Shriver did
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into the service. H: Yes, I was a regular naval officer for 25 years and retired voluntarily in 1959. Mc: I would assume you served through the wars, World War 11-- H: Yes, I was in PT boats in World War II. I was at Pearl Harbor when the war started
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • believe, met and talked to John Connally. He said, "I would like to give some money to the Johnson campaign." And one of them said, "That is wonderful! You will be the first person who has made a contribution to this campaign. II This was a smart
Oral history transcript, Calvin Hazlewood, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this meeting down in Austin for two days already and I \'las supposed to be there. "Get yoursel f on down here and 'Ne 111 show you what to do. II Well, I got in that little old Chevrolet and I drove all night long. Had to go by Lubbock to pick up some