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Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Charles F. Herring, interview 2 (II), 10/24/1968, by Paul Bolton
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 2 (II), 7/8/1969, by T.H. Baker
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, Emma Long, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • with the American-Statesman, and I had a young son then so I was at home. I stayed home and didn't work. We lived rather a quiet life. Then, the World War II came along and Stuart joined the marine corps and went through Quantico. Then we were sent to Atlanta
Oral history transcript, George Mahon, interview 1 (I), 8/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out of line for?" Now and ever since him, it's been, "Well, listen, show a little independence on your own part. stamp for anybody. II What are you Don't be a rubber This was an interesting period in our history and it hasn't been duplicated
Oral history transcript, Felix McKnight, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mind," and he said, "What is it? II I said, "00 we call you Mr. President or Lyndon?" he turned on me and never answered, but I got the message. And He really LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • largely political they were somewhat over their heads. I felt that had they been faced with the Russians on the plains of Germany they'd have given a very good account of themselves, but this was not World War II and it was not the preparations for World
Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with it?" I do; there's only one hope: I said, "Well, unfortunately Muchmore says that superhuman action on your part and the organization could probably change it. take that. II So he said, '~ell, you've told me enough. people don't want me, I don't
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, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • : Well, when President Johnson became president, I think he was somewhat suspicious of the military. In other words, he really had no military orientation in his past. He had served for a while, of course, in Horld War II, in the Navy, I believe
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that later I might like an appointment as federal judge . But two years or more later I went to Palm Beach, Florida, to see my son take off for overseas duty in World War II . He was a lieutenant in the Air Transport Comm-and . For our own protection I
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, R. Conrad Cooper, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , II (for (ilellon Bank N.A. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania s executor of the estate of R. Conrad Cooper) do hereby give, donate and convey to the United States of A~erica all my rights
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by eighty-seven votes, I think it was, and they called him IILandslide Johnson. II With that memory tucked way back in there in my mind, I read with interest the statement by this election official or party official or Johnson organizational official [luis
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 2 (II), 5/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • can recall, the circumstances under which you first met them. S: I can recall very clearly, the first time I met the Congressman was pre-World War II. In those days I was director of research at CBS, and any affiliation which was made
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is that World War I and World War II would have been different wars if they'd have had television coverage. You had, in those wars, more control over what the press could report. But this was the first war that television really went right into the battlefield
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • growing years, and went to college at Wayne University in Detroit. Detroit is really--I still consider it home even though I came to Washington in World War II, 1942, and got a job as copy girl for the old Washington Daily News. I then went to UP
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in 1959 had brought the dollar under pressure for the first time since World War II. During that period, the dollar, as planned in designing the International Monetary Fund in 1945, had in effect replaced gold as the basic reserve money of the free world
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . (Interruption) --I went to the British Embassy for a celebration of the coronation of Elizabeth II, and picked up Hubert Humphrey and Muriel, always glad to be able to have somebody to go with because Lyndon just didn't put things like that at the top of his
  • governess; LBJ's support for working women and daycare facilities; LBJ's smoking and stress; Gene Autry at the 1953 Texas State Society barbeque; a British Embassy celebration of the coronation of Elizabeth II; seeing the Trumans in his post-presidency
Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • encour­ aging remarks there. M: Well, that was bigger contact then. L: Oh, yes, it was a much bigger contact we had. M: You might talk about that a little bit. That was right before Apollo VI II? L: It was just before the launch of Apollo
Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 6 (VI), 9/16/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sure you've gone over some of his subcommittee actions both in World War II and later. G: Yes. Did he do any selling of that legislation on the Hill, do you know? J: I don't remember that he did. G: No, let's see, this was 1947, so he was still
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in China. G: How was your position affected then, to back up just a little bit, at the end of World War II when the Nationalist Chinese Army came into the North? BD: Oh yes, it was a very, very turbulent period, and somehow I got involved in politics
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • these things down every time, and it was never possible to get a bill on the President's desk. The President then--or somebody, I don't know who--actually concocted this formula. But we had passed after World War II not long after I came to Congress the so
Oral history transcript, Lindy Boggs, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Boggs' earliest memories of the Johnsons in 1941; LBJ's World War II military service; LBJ's 1948 Senate election; socializing with the Johnsons and Sam Rayburn; Boggs' and Rayburn's interaction during the 1960 presidential campaign kick-off; how
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the countryside, and rarely did a fight last more than a day. [There] might be a succession of contacts over three or four days, but in 1965-1967 rarely did the same unit stay in contact for days at a time, in contrast to Korea and World War II, except at some
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • run for governor they would not seek the office. See, on the eve of World War II he had made this race for Senate and in all but the history books he won it; it was stolen from him afterwards. John very much wanted him to run for governor and use
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • day and said, IITom Nichols wants to see you. Well, Tom Nichols was the II President's secretary and really had charge of those things. So I went in to see what Tom had to say and he said, "I hear that you and Lyndon and Boody and a whole bunch
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh CE::ERAL SEEV ICES Amn:.iI STEll nON NATIO:iAL ARCHIVES A~D RECORDS SEHV ICE Gift of Personal St3tem~nt
Oral history transcript, Dixon Donnelley, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Fowler's guy Donnelley. Leave him alone." I said, "So?" wouldn't touch you with a htmdred-foot pole. II at the same time angry. this was not my idea. He said, "We Well, I was flattered and I talked to Mr. Fowler about it. He said, "Dixon
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 3 (III), 7/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • War II, because you know you're going to deploy all the resources that you can without disrupting your on-going civilian economy. But in a conflict of this sort of a highly limited character, a good deal of the pace and scale of the war depends
Oral history transcript, William H. Stewart, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana State University and then entered medical school in July of 1942. Since this was the World War II period, we were on the accelerated program, and I completed medical school in June of 1945, a three-year program. I
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it and gave it to the Vice President. And soon after, the Vice President saw me in the hall and said, "Cecil, I want you to come over sometime and make a picture like you just made of the President. II Just like it, same pose, hand on the desk, and every
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and he would get out and help the candidate whom he thought would be a better official, not only to our community but to the state and our country. So that when I came back from the service after lid been in the service six years in World War II, he
Oral history transcript, Phillip Tocker, interview 1 (I), 7/3/1984, by Lewis Gould (Item)
  • and maintenance of all outdoor advertising signs, displays and devices in all areas within a thousand feet of the outer edge of pavement of the primary system and interstate system of highways be controlled. II I'm reading from the panel report. "A majority
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, 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: October 18
  • Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that period of time have been performed by my principal deputy, Mr. P: [Ralph] Earle [II]. Mr. Warnke, how much do you think that our commitment in Vietnam has LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ! That he could think that I think that I could buy his support with a turkey! II Very disgusted. I remember also going to their house when their girls were very small children. Bird had bought the radio station by that time. She took money that she