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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, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • presidential running mate and that in effect his family went to bed the night after Kennedy was nominated thinking that in the morning the family would have to decide if the father would go on as a Senator or would become a vice presidential candidate. Can you
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • into the White House, and I remember the eerie feeling of going back with all the lights and Secret Service and the Presidential aura around that house. F: It changed the complexion a bit. G: Yes, and that night, Joe and Susan Mary Alsop were there. F: Who
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in the poverty job. Did your work then in drafting what became the VISTA title of the ? bill bring you more directly into the general drafting of the. P: I read the whole bill and made some comments to Schlei and his people. But it did not. time. I did
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , but before he made any decision about what he was going to do, where he was going to go, he really wanted to find out what the situation was in South Vietnam and whether the things he had been reading about and hearing about in fact added up to a form
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • this hindsight that people try to put into history these days to prove that they were right. I was fascinated to read last night an article in Encounter magazine written by a man named Robert Elegant-G: He's a British journalist, I believe. H: --in which he
Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 1 (I), 9/7/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that was a natural, the right of teachers to teach and students to read and write, and that was about it. I wrote something along that line, I don't know whether I have a copy of it or not, probably, and sent it in. I wasn't altogether prompt with it, and somewhere
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was anxious to move in this whole field. I remember that night about a dozen of us met way into the night LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Emma S. Webb, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, Buchanan, James P. Buchanan of Brenham, had died rather suddenly, and he had already been in Congress many years. So most of us people didn't knmv too much of what a congressman was going to do. But we had, of course, read that he had died
Oral history transcript, Frank F. Mankiewicz, interview 3 (III), 5/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and clergy and labor and students in universities and everybody else. He even thought~ as his mind went on, I remember one night, about taking an hour or an hour and a half of prime time television to put on a documentary of what life was really like
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , left my family in New York City; I commuted between Washington and New York every weekend. I had a small apartment across from the State Department on 21st Street, and I'd be there during the week. Friday night I'd go home and come back out Monday
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to have known anything about Dick K1eberg, except what he read about in elections. As far as Lyndon having anything to do with Dick K1eberg ' s original election, he did not, because he was teaching school. All right, then Daddy called him to meet him
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 17 (XVII), 9/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XVII -- 16 two days. You could read all you wanted to and just look out at passing
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • House." Moyers says it's "spurious and ridiculous," and "gossip like this only demeans the Office of the President," and "I'm surprised you would run it without an effort to verify it." Then at the bottom it says, "For the President's night reading from
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • happen the night before, yet it proved to be one of the most underrated stories that went begging for attention for quite a long time. And I think some of those fellows, if you were to ask them today, would say that it was a genuinely missed opportunity
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in the State Department saw as a possible shortage of oil in the Middle East. Well, it wasn't a story that had the kind of coup d'état immediacy to it. It was something that wasn't going to happen tomorrow morning or didn't happen the night before, yet
Oral history transcript, Lucius D. Battle, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • will not permit you to go to Cairo; and I am very much opposed to your departure." As these little ironies of fate happen, as it worked out, we happened to run into Bill and Betty Fulbright, it seemed to me, almost every night during those several weeks. M
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , but I \\las in graduate school at the time, just at the time work. I think she was about completing her undergraduate I was a student assistant for journalism, teaching headline writing and copy reading while I took tv:o years to get my masters degree
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • an Electra, a chartered Electra; you may recall those planes. They had kind of a circular lounge right in the rear, the tail. F: Right. W: And after everything was through for the night, he'd be flying off somewhere--maybe Garden City, Kansas--be flying
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • yourself to any of the other Democratic contenders? 'hi: Yes. First of all, I think it was exclusively for Humphrey, all the people on the White House staff. he wasn't going to run, ~:::J I know the night that Johnson said .".,ife was jumping up
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson said to me--we had dinner together, just the two of us, in his hotel suite the night of the speech of the, what do you call them, temporary chairman. F: Yes. R: The keynote speech, which I think Frank Church was giving. The keynote. We were
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Point, Rhode Island, for additional training. This is really more personal than relates to President Johnson, so I won't elaborate on it. But then I was attached to a night-fighter group. We were the first trained controllers, called then fighter
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • me ." He said that "They got 'em organized here ." I remember one time when I was sergeant-at-arms over there and we were going to have our meeting the same night that Joe Louis was going to fight . F: Oh, no . M: It was in the spring
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was to appear there as a potential candidate, but it was agreed that night on March 31, when I talked with the President after he had withdrawn, that he was going to keep that appearance. I came down just to keep the ball rolling on that, and several things
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • by the estimates section, a group of singularly incompetent lieutenant colonels. After I read the briefing I called them all in, and I said, "You're all fired. Out." I real- ized either I was going to have to do it myself or I was going to have to get some
Oral history transcript, John Brooks Casparis, interview 1 (I), 1/7/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the University of Texas. give us material. They would give us outlines, and then they would We would study the outlines and then read the material, and then we would write our debates from that. G: I see. Well, was LBJ pretty diligent in studying
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (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 Califano -- XLI -- 2 the night. There was no, ever, never any, "I'm sorry it's three
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • know, a baby clinic, or a hospital, or somewhere the next day. The night before that was to take place, our son Dan fell off his burro and broke his arm, and we had the Dominican doctor look at it and set it and cast it, and we weren't very satisfied
Oral history transcript, Ardis C. Hopper, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson did before he worked in President Evans' office? H: Yes, when we first moved up to this apartment he was night That was one of the good jobs there. well secure at night. watchm~n. They kept the campus pretty There were two shifts in each area
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • wanted to make you friendly as possible. Yes, you get an intimation of . . . . F: And did he read you? B: Well, I was impressed with him. F: No, I mean did he read your copy? Did you get an idea that when I didn't agree with him-- you wrote
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was on the plane going out with us, and my room that had been assigned to me at the hotel there in Los Angeles had been taken over as an office, and I spent my first night in Governor Burns l suite. Then as a result of being invited by the President to serve
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • I know about, in terms of decisions at that point or,what! ve read abou,t since, Ambassador Lodgels return and I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 2 (II), 8/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • announced for the Senate, and that he was leaving and to get him a bag packed. And he flew out that night. F: Did she seem surprised? R: Well, there was so much excitement--I'm confident that they'd talked it over, because I think that they have been
Oral history transcript, Peter R. Rosenblatt, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • was invited to stay there by the two guys who were living there at the time. That was Dave Kenney, who was in the evaluation division of CORDS, a foreign service officer, and Mike Cook, who was doing the same thing. So I was staying there the night that Tet
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • support from Russia? B: Well, in the summer of '64, my own reading, and I gave it to a lot o£ newsmen in these terms at the time, is that Khrushchev wished Southeast Asia were under six feet of water . When he was overthrown in October, this was very
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and wanted to see my father do well . likewise . His brothers and sisters were interested in him They were readers . I've heard him say when they lived in Georgia that they were poor people, but they took the Atlanta Constitution , and his mother read
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 8 (VIII), 9/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there? Would it be every evening? R: No, not every evening, but pretty regularly, and they wouldn't stay until late at night or anything like that, but the little group--I can't tell you who all was in it because I don't know--they all liked and respected
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • them, because that's what we thought was wanted, we didn't have any strong feelings that number one was far, far superior to number eight on that list. Shall I read in the names? M: Yes. L: All right, this is in the--this is the rank-ordering
  • School-related topics; dining and staying the night at the White House; Frank Dobie staying the night in the Lincoln Bedroom; LBJ turning off the lights in the White House; Walter Cronkite and Livingston looking for a restroom in the White House; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • that it was not because President Johnson twisted my arm, as I have read in many publications. A president of the United States cannot twist the arm of a Supreme Court justice, even Lyndon Johnson. As a matter of fact, to prove that, sometime before then he had invited me
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of television, by asking for the networks to place those television crews in the White House almost around the clock, until midnight or something. Every night he'd have the television crew at the White House theater, and the networks paid for it. And a couple