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Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the words. F: I can go back before that because I was in the British Navy in World War II, and I know what they thought of him there as a politician. H: He could get along with people. He could get people in the room, and as I have often said I think
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Johnson wanting him to come down and see him before he went. Lyndon was trying to put the last screw into everybody, turn the ratchet one more time. So Sherrod was in a situation like that. He was a very good World War II correspondent, I think
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on here. news conference has not materialized yet. Senate Majority Leader. This I haven't even seen the He's around here somewhere, but I haven't really seen him, and I just don't know. said, "What the hell is going on? II He kind of pressed me
Oral history transcript, Horace E. Richards, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was elected anything, "You know, Lyndon is running night and day for president of the United States. to talk about. II He wants to be. And I know that was true. That's all he wants He had his eye on that job back ten years before he was ever elected
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • up to run for governor some day. II Now this was in the back of my mind. However, when Henry Norgenthau's son--what's his name? C: Robert. F: Bob Norgenthau. R: Bob Morgenthau was running. Lyndon was in town and was supposed to speak for him
Oral history transcript, Will R. Rogers, interview 1 (I), 10/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 I-rR : Yes. PB: c.e.c., WR: That I s right. PB: ')'ii:.a t WR : Then we built the park out here. wasn't it? did they do? All the buildings and everything in that park was built by the C.C. boys and the materials
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • , but back in those days right after World War II and the factories could not make delivery anyway, and I had enough orders stacked up in San Antonio that if there was any suffering it was possibly at a later date as they caught up on deliveries. And too I
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, 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 16
  • Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Oral history transcript, Polk Shelton and Nell Shelton, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • both very much. love him and Lady Bird. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview I] In fact,II just LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/5/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • World War II, the fraternities never won the presidency. what the independents gave us. The only thing they won were The independents never challenged the editorship of the Cactus, for example, because that was not a magazine but sort of a social
Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • here, and weI re about to allow it to be taken away from us. II That was particularly evident from the labor people and the more liberal element in the party. They seemed to have a distrust for this switchover, and so in order to make it official
Oral history transcript, C.R. Smith, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • not frequently but once in a while during the war [World War II]. Army. I was here [Washington] about three and half years in the He went into the Navy for a tour of active duty. I saw him a few times during the war; saw him more often after the War, but my
Oral history transcript, William B. Macomber, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • II of asserting its role in the foreign policy business. But earlier, within the Senate, there had tended to be a deference to the Foreign Relations Committee and very often to the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. You remember
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • this up. Bennett came back and held a press conference. And he retailed stories that had been wholesaled to him by the military at San Isidro, the loyalist military, about beheadings and things of that sort. II He made one mistake in his press
Oral history transcript, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to the legislators. was my main function. I was to circulate around through the crowd and I was to go with him and say, "Thi sis Senator Jones, forth. That So that was my function. II and so I was down here working on that at the time that I received the news
Oral history transcript, Eugene McDermott and Margaret Milam McDermott, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McDERMOTT -- I -- 3 its present location about 1941 burned down in 1945 or '46, and then ~ was rebuilt and it's been building since. ON: Whendi d you fi rst meet up \'Ii th Lyndon Johnson or the Johnson family? EM: Oh
Oral history transcript, Cameron McElroy and Lucille McElroy, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "I won't run. II 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 McElroy -- I
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and we worried lest both the kids and the faculties were becoming lethargic. F: Yes, I remember that complacent generation. It worried me as a history professor. M: After World War II, we always blamed it on World War II because you had a double
Oral history transcript, (Sir) Robert Gordon Menzies, interview 1 (I), 11/24/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the Australian But it's because we do in fact have exactly the same outlook broadly on world issues. F: My feeling in Australia during World War II was that these were an LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . At that time I had an opportunity to talk to him for about forty-five minutes. We exchanged the usual pleasantries, and then he discussed his experiences in World War II in the Navy, and we discussed several mutual friends, such as Governor Connally of Texas
Oral history transcript, Ralph Moreland, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . remember him usi ng any fi lthy 1anguage. "hell," or something like that, but. I mean . . . No, I don't rvlaybe a IIGod damn, II or a . No, I don't remember anything unusual about the words that he used. Mc: Did you have any impressions, incidentally
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, Thomas O. Paine, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , served in World War II in submarines in the Pacific, in 1949 got a doctorate in Physical Metallurgy from Stanford, and from 1949 to 1968 worked for General Electric-the last five years as manager of their Tempo--GE's Center for Advanced Studies--in Santa
Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But the first opportunity, Mr. Roosevelt made it apply to all people who had a worthy project that was in the public interest and couldn't get financing locally at reasonable rates. He said go to the RFC and get it. You know when World War II started
Oral history transcript, James Cato Pattillo and Nettie Pattillo Woodyard, interview 1 (I), 6/27/1968, by A.K. Johnson (Item)
  • ?" Pattillo. II He said, IIWell, that's Mr. And he said, "No, it's not r4r. Pattillo. the next meanest man?" The Then who's He said, "Oh, yes, that's Mr. Gulledge." So that's the way the Negroes and tenant farmers thought of them, thought that they were
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Relations Committee. So Johnson said to him, IIGeorge, I'm sure you would 1ike to have Lehman on the committee. II came down and lit on Mansfield. completely ran Knowland. thing. George, of course, hi t the ceil i ng, Johnson did that all the time. I
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • stamp, in a sense? W: Exactly. F: III'm for the administration. II W: I never heard him, not one single time, ever put a bad word on President Kennedy. Never. That's not to say he didn't do it, but he certainly never did it to me. By then, you
Oral history transcript, Wilton Woods and Virginia Woods, interview 5 (V), 4/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • subcontractors "Look, we've got to have some money here," and they'd tell them why and they'd usually fork over enough. If it wasn't enough, they'd say, "We 11, we 11 come back to see you next payday I II or someth i ng. VW: Wilton stayed up there for three
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , yes. then? Z: Yes. G: Really? Z: Yes, there wasn't any question about that. Yes, yes. .. ..Ii:" G: Can you recall anything in particular that he might have said? Z: No. Once in a while he would refer to him as the Chief and how he wanted
Oral history transcript, Walter Judd, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • War II and the Chinese were determined to hang on to them. I've been there on the island. You can look out and as far as when you get up to the ground and look from there over to where you join the--when you come out of the Lotsford Road and look over
Oral history transcript, Wroe Owens, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • had an office in the Littlefield Building at that time. I had been back practicing law for three years at that time. G: You had been in World War II? O: I was in the FBI from 1942 to 1945. I practiced law before that time here. G: Well, did
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • [Noncommissioned Officer]. So we just wandered around most of the time in what they called the Bon Song area of II Corps. We did a lot of work up to the west of Hue and had one big operation in conjunction with the First Infantry Division down in War Zone C. G
Oral history transcript, William B. Cannon, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • - ity. So that part I know "Residents of the Area," you see. But Hal did the drafting on Title II, or at least somebody for him in his office or something. G: Was there. within this drafting group, a difference of opinion with regard to what local
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Coleman -- I -- 12 Ameri can ~ Jack Kennedy. II They had swi tched over to Kennedy, not knowing that they were going to be running mates four years hence, you see. To me
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it was wise either, because I knew that this woulQ probably alienate the support of much of the press that would have been important to have had working ~ith us tn that campaign. He called these peopl e "pork-choppers. II I don't know whether you've heard
Oral history transcript, Ernest Cuneo, interview 1 (I), 9/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the Roosevelt forces had said they would recommend him for the chairmanship, and Bob Jackson arose and said, "No, I agreed to commend you to the convention, which I now do, but I recommend Wa 1sh. II The Roosevelt steamroll er broke through after
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • commotion in the President's car. About that time a motorcycle also pulled over, and I asked him what had happened, if s9meone had been hurt,and he said yes. I tol d him, "Take us to Pa rkl and Hospital. II M: So you were in the lead car then to Parkland
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • has given over thirty years of his life to it would be so easy on inaugural to not be there. and I thought~ Texas~" and And I said, "Everybody's all dressed. II And there was a conflict out at the Coliseum because we were having a cocktail party
Oral history transcript, Frank G. Wisner, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of responsibility. I remember Mr. Richardson of AID ran the effort in Binh Thuan Province in II Corps, and so on; III Corps and I Corps had different leadership. But the Delta was designed to have a military top officer, and that officer was to coordinate