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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they reacted very well. One of the cute stories about the White House years is that a senator attacked the President very strongly on the floor of the Senate the day of a state dinner, and that night he was on the guest list. Of course, COpy Lyndon B~ Jobnson

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh March 19, 1969 M: This is an interview with Dr. Joseph A. Pechman. Institution. He is at Brookings I am in the Reading Room of the Library at Brookings where the interview is taking place. The date is March 19, 1969

Oral history transcript, Rufus Phillips, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the things I found out when I got out there is that as usual, nobody had read any of the stuff that the Vietnamese were putting out themselves on what they wanted to achieve with the strategic hamlet program. Well, one of the things they had

Oral history transcript, Hodding Carter, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/8/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/show/loh/oh 17 B: Well, I was wondering if you had any specific instances of what you call the stubbornness that has sometimes hurt his activities? C: I think you'd just have to read his record. It's written down for you to see. B: Do you think
independence; wife's opinion of Lady Bird; strong Kennedy supporter; supper with RFK the night before his assassination; incident on plane after RFK's death; relationship between RFK and LBJ

Folder, "Garrison Investigation, New Orleans, 1967-1968," Papers of John B. Connally, Box 324 (Item)

by approximately and included frora 12 states prosecutors and the It was conducted and Secret of the ag·encies, Ne1,r York. a,-,·:.-:·--,.. "::()n- Ser-'7lce on a11d e-1Jb•1 5..._;;~d over invest:i.r~;-\t-i 25,000 reports. Now when I read what you say

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, I think, when we talked Friday night, that he was a person that if I were you I would interview. He is getting up in years. This we'll take out of the transcript, but, off the record, but for your information he is up in years. F: He is still

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that in and out a" it. By lying to the bedroom every morning as I did, I came in contact ~1 with the speech because by-and-large the various drafts were went to the President as his night reading. When I would arrive there in the morning the speech would

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

objects would be hauled through the streets at nights, and things of this kind. F: It was difficult to gauge-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More

Folder, "Dr. King, Inves. of his Murder April 1968," Papers of Ramsey Clark, Box 66 (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

-- II -- 5 call second level or third level decisions, not of the highest importance or urgency, which are nevertheless significant enough to come to the Budget Director. Here the responsibility of the Budget Director to try to read the President's

Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the speech to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Annual Dinner and he and Mrs. Johnson spent the night with Mrs. Hodges and me at the mansion. We had a chance to know them pretty intimately, and he made a good impression at the Jackson Day Dinner because he

Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the train. And of course some of them got on late at night, some of them came in the back door. Some of them, a few of them, fortunately stood up and didn't make any bones about it, like I was doing, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

o'clock in the afternoon. body back here that night. As you know, they brought his President Johnson--of course he immediately became President--called me quite early, somewhere between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday morning, the very next morning

Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

came in, he was an old :ial of the Speaker' s , and the Speaker said, "This is one I want . " I had his Ci vil Service report because he'd been in and it was rather voluminous and I'd read a ll through it. We always c l eared them with the Bureau

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

me disheartened cablegrams that night and we were deeply distressed . Then on Monday came a cablegram from the President saying, "Here's your wheat .' I don't know . Now, why, Was LBJ playing games with these people? I don't suppose he changes

Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

been the White Horse Division, but it doesn't make any difference, it was the division under the 9th Corps. He said, "They gave way during the night and there's no ROK division there now. in your artillery. The Chinese are now marching in strength

Folder, "Garrison, Jim," Papers of Wright Patman, Box 768-B (Item)

Committee. I have read in the newspapers that the Committee is considering an investigation into whether politics has influenced the activities and decisions of the Justice Department. In addition to being District Attorney of Orleans Parish, I happen

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

he was at least tacitly giving his approval to these election plans . Bi : Well, according to the stories you read, he obviously was . hear it mentioned from time to time--mentioned with me . We used to Sometimes people I was calling

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

office and they notify their headquarters who notifies us here and so it is a double check. And we dispatch an agent to check- it out. M: The instance that came to my mind, I recall reading in Time one which, I believe it was the FBI declined

Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 2 (II), 4/23/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Well, this intrigued some of us and we got to work on it. some meetings over in State in the middle of the night. meeting lasted until 1:00 a.m. discussing this. We had I remember one We had some experts in land reform I personally thought it might

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

with Bob Kennedy alone in his room at the Biltmore Hotel the night before that happened, and I had no inkling. I was totally surprised. I was totally outside that, couldn't contribute anything to it here. S: There's been a good deal of speculation

Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

had sensed, and ',.,hat the sentiment was, as I could read it. 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

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the people he checked it out with didn't know any more about it than he did, and they all read it, and they all arrived at the same conclusion. ''Well, it's okay." F: I know that the State Department and the White House go to great lengths to see

Oral history transcript, Everett Hutchinson, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

district with any sort of problems they had. He had a very broad scope. F: Did you work out of Hempstead or out of Austin? H: Both, but primarily out of Austin. F: Where were you the night of the election? H: As I recall it, I was in Austin

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at. F: On.something like the New York Times in which you are not confronted--that is, the great general public can't read a by-line and tell whether it's white, black, or plaid, how does such a generally liberal organ have such a poor record

Folder, "JFK Assassination - Preserving Documents," Papers of Ramsey Clark, Box 97 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

do then? T: Flew back to Washington. F: How soon did you see the Senator? T: I think the day I got back to Washington, that night or the next morning I went to the hospital and Dr. [James] Cain took me in just for a He was still under the oxygen

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

also set great store--he thought I had influence over the arms of the government in my articles in the paper. Johnson as he did. He was anxious for me to know and appreciate So he invited me out to dinner one night for the purpose of meeting Johnson

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, and McGeorge Bundy, and there was Ross Gilpatric, and McNamara, and several others on the staff of the White House in the Office of Science and Technology and the Defense Department. We had been to the White House on Wednesday night to a reception and had

Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. In fact, the very day I was appointed there was a big reception at the White House planned for that night for the new appointees over the past year, and we were immediately brought into that. Then I would say there have been two or three lunches a year

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be. This This is what Why can't you give us , " or whatever it might I think that in that sense he saw those reports, and he used them in a constructive way. But I think, if he read them--as I am sure he did; I saw him read them--carefully, he also saw emerging

Oral history transcript, Byron G. Skelton, interview 1 (I), 10/15/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

: Was this at night or in the afternoon? 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 6 S

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

back the very next morning through his night reading. He seemed to me prodigious in his handling of any communi- cations I had with him. My command of the job that I was given was such that whoever the people were who were occasionally called upon

Oral history transcript, Sam Kinch, Sr., interview 1 (I), 6/3/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for Johnson's TV station, he and I were out at the airport catching a plane when we heard it on the radio. F: What did you do then? K: Nothing. Boatner, he was covering it, and he was still there, so he covered it. No, Mr. Rayburn had indicated the night

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at all. He used to take a stack of material down on the beach and sit there with one yeoman and read what had to be acted upon and dictate the answer right now, and out it went. He didn't even proofread it. He just dictated the answer

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John McCormack, interview 1 (I), 9/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh -18- At the rally he had that night in Boston, there was a big overflow rally with thousands outside unable to get in. And he had evidenced by his leadership in the Senate a refreshing and courageous, progressive leadership

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that for granted. F: And you worked. S: Yes, sir. F: Did you go home that night? S: As I recall, I think I did go home about three or four o'clock. I came back very early the next morning. F: Did you get involved at all in the funeral? S: No, sir. F

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

it actually than pretty much what I had read in the newspapers and the kind of gossip you picked up around the Democratic National Committee and the White House. I had no personal knowledge of it. Ba: Do you know if Mr. Truman interested himself

Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to keep him from taking the U.S. Senate seat here in Washington. We had some very exciting moments on election day, election night particularly, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

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