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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • do it. II So Well, Mrs. Johnson didn't want anything on the basis of the unfinished one. It was very different from the one done in 1943 and by the by,. I always had in mind that the 1943 [one] could be done in oils, with his cape
Oral history transcript, Kathryn Deadrich Loney, interview 1 (I), 1/21/1965, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • to. were German. The other Ii ttle children , mos t of them And they were mighty sweet little kids. 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, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . was made to go ahead and file an application. II And So the decision There was no opposition. There was no competition because no other group in the community wanted a VHF television station. Vou must remember that there were UHF channels, LBJ
Oral history transcript, J. Roy White, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , wallpaper books. Mrs. Johnson finally said, "Well, I believe this is the one we ought to select. That was, say, number three. I hope Lyndon will like this." "We 11, fi ne, up to the Ranch on another matter. II [I sa i d] II I.~m goi ng back live
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ty and we Ire goi ng to hang him and we mi ght as well get thi s trial over as quick as \'/e can. II So we got it over as qui ckly as vie could and we sentenced the man to death. The news got out. and people started calling Terrible nickname. me
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • would lead his forces in Iowa--Kennedy's. And I told him that I just couldn't do that, I was completely committed to Stevenson. And he said to me, can't win?" II~Je 11, don It you know that Stevenson I said, "Well, I can't argue that with you
Oral history transcript, Palmer Hoyt, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • minutes. Well. luckily, John Taber of New York, as soon as I was presented to this Conference Committee, said, "Mr. Hoyt, what do you think of the D.P.A.?II interrupted, of course. I was Instead of five minutes I got forty-five minutes, LBJ
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 3 (III), 1/11/1984, by Clarence Lasby (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 I DATE: January 11
Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • well kept secret. M: Yes it was. Were those real cuts, that extra billion or so, or were they shuffled figures? D: Well, there was some shuffling of figures to get down to the ninety-nine and a half. Then there was some more to get lower, but II d
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Symington was gOing to be the vice presidential candidate. I asked him, II I remember one of them telling me; Well , which one's it going to be?' "It's going to be Symington." And he said, I remember a good deal of surprise LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Donald Gilpatric, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . And I don't believe that anything which the Foreign Service posts or officers will do really helps that much. II Ergo, the Foreign Service is too big; now. wedon't want any new jobs; and Pm not satisfied with any justification you give for commercial
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , "I'm gOing to get them. I'm smarter than they are." Then he elaborated and said, "I'm going to offer fvlorse a job that he won't refuse, and it wi 11 rui n him. II That job was a job to be the negotiator in the airline mechanics strike, which
Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , was very careful to see that the position of the Administrator in the government hierarchy was not disturbed. Level II. For example, as Administrator, I was a With respect to Level II, that means that you are one notch below the Cabinet level; Secretary
  • Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a lot in that Allred affair. They came in to see me one morning, and said, "We want you to manage Lyndon Johnson's campaign. II He had just announced the day before. I only knew him by newspaper accounts. I didn't know him personally. M; You had
  • Oral history transcript, Claude C. Wild, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by David G. McComb
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • have any trainees to go in and do the repair work on the airplanes. This was in 0 & R, overhaul and repair shop for airplanes that were coming back from World War II. And we set up all types of training projects there in Corpus Christi
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and said, "That was a fine talk you gave. Have you consulted with Lyndon Johnson on this matter?" And I said, "No, I haven't." And he said, "Do you know- the role that Lyndon Johnson has played in this? gets passed, it will be his doing, not yours. II
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a lot of hell because it was a political meeting and he was announcing a military thing but it--that's how he took care of Goldwater. We were so burned by Minute Man II, Goldwater claiming that Minute Man II was not a new weapons system, that when we
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, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and say to you, There was no It was just like I IIl'd 1 ike to di scuss a matter with you, II and. that was it. F: You had an advantage with him in his famed any hour, he was available. M: (Laughter) Wasn't he? I made it a point to try to have
Oral history transcript, Joseph Palmer II, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a whole bunch of tails of fm'-es on the wall, II whatever that phrase was--not foxes. M: Coonskins? K: Coonskins! III ,.;rant to see this coonskin on the wall," banging away with his hands at it, you k-n0l-1--1:V'onderful gesture! coonskins up
Oral history transcript, Terrel Maverick Webb, interview 1 (I), 1/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh :-'"_e'?-~ -~-. - !'ii:-- WEBB -- I -- 6 were working for Lyndon at that time. Because he would come over to San Antonio, and filaury just went crazy on the subject of saving that little historic spot there in San Antonio
Oral history transcript, Daniel O. Graham, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • without Diem," and those who said, "We cannot accomplish our aims with Diem. II It was almost a fifty-fifty spl it. Now, one of the fellows who became very key in the whole Vietnam affair, George Carver, I can recall him coming in after the fall of Diem
Oral history transcript, James W. Gulick, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • cooperation of the labor union leaders to pressure their men to take jobs on ships >"hich are really not the nicest in the world to sail on. You're talking now about making men serve on ships that are twenty, twentyfive years old. M: World War II vintage. G
Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be sure~ because we didn't get any response from you. II I said, "Well, where did you send this cablegram?" He said, IIWe sent it to the address of your newspaper in Pari s. II At thi s time~ Paris. the Times was still publishing an international
Oral history transcript, Robert J. Smith, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . expense~ That put an end to my travels until I got into aviation and finally into World War II, before I ever got to take in a good part of the rest of the world. But Dallas has always appealed to me. I've been away from it several times but I've
Oral history transcript, Margaret Mayer Ward, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ward -- I -- 6 have done it in quite such a concentrated fashion but still in as a person who was at home with them. congressman. II "I am Lyndon ~ he went Johnson~ your Held eat a bowl of chili, and held brag on the chili. Now I do remember
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • car." going to get my car. driver. He So he was LBJ said, "You see that fellow. He's my He's been the driver for the majority leader for many years, going back to Joe Robinson. II F: Joe Robinson from Arkansas. M: He said, liDo you know he
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this that you could admire him for. Then there were Limes 'Nhen he would be caITlpaigning and with very little rest:, You would think that he had a. few minutes to rest, and then one of the aides would co'me in and say, "This group is out to see you o II He
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, 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: April 24, 1981
  • Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/7/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the press. My experience has been that after every war the underachievers come up with something related to the war, whether it's shell shock or whether it's gassed in World War II or whether it's battle fatigue in World War II or whether it's Agent Orange
Oral history transcript, Jack T. Conway, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of years 1ater I met up VJith him and he sa id, "You I re doing what I talked about doing. II Common Cause was a mi.ddle-class organization, of course. So anyway, he was going through transition in his thinking. So was I. But that's not really central
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . It was at that time--and I think this was on January 22 or 23--Shriver made an offer, at least he invited me to accept the position of director of the Community Action Program, which was responsible for the administration of Title II of the act . I frankly demurred
  • such as the Community Action agency and Neighborhood Youth Corps under Title II; job training vs. job placement; STAR program in Mississippi; Berry
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , really? N: He said, IIWhen you're the president or the vice president, or even a governor, all of your dissidents are spread out, II I think his \'lOrds were, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://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 GERMANY -- I -- 16 just not going to get in that parade. II I said, "Now, Elliott
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, James W. Symington, interview 3 (III), 11/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • assistant at the Justice He said that, lillie want these men dealt \'/ith." . And Ka tzenbach sa i d, to be witnesses. II II Yes. II They wi 11 be tr i ed, bu t your men wi 11 have I wi 11 not subject them to such infamy. You'll LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Robinson Risner, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • find many who like to kill people. run into a single one. I haven't So what I'm saying, you will hear little remarks that really are not meaningful. Just like during World War II, bad language, obscenities, were the mode of operation. cal military
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, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of American women continues to be the most tragic and the most senseless waste of this century." And then turning to this huge demand for skilled people, people of ability, he said, "This under-utilization is a waste we can no longer afford. II
  • Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1968, by David G. McComb