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Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out of our book in the Falklands and imposed censorship right away. G: Now let me ask you about the President's March 31 speech. You were I believe watching the television in the Embassy with General Westmoreland, Bob Komer, Barry Zorthian and Paul
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • congressional office, but always with the hope of completing his law degree here. He carne to me several times in a very fine sort of way, and L. E. might not want me to tell this, but he was strapped. I helped him in a very small way but I know basically
Oral history transcript, Elma (Mrs. Sam) Fore, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there. But the Mummers were having a parade that night. We never did get up there where it was. We never did know she won it until she got back to the hotel. M: Oh my. F: Bob Jackson, the editor of the Corpus Caller, took her up there. He and Judge Allred escorted
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1976 INTERVIEWEE: BOB WALDRON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Waldron's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: Would you like to start with some of those observations about his Senate years, the majority leadership period
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • contact with the then-Vice President is that the man who now serves as the Deputy Director of this agency, Mr. Bob Perrin, was at that time Senator McNamara's administrative assistant and my chief adversary in this particular LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • your bags packed?" I said, ''Well, it's always packed, Mr. President." He said, "Bob McNamara is here with me. He's got an airplane waiting for you to take you to Europe." I said, ''Where do you want me to go?" He said, "That's for you to decide
Oral history transcript, Carl Hayden, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • hope Roy Elson does. I'm going out and make a talk for him. F: Did it create much of a problem when you and Senator Goldwater were here together, or was one being from one party and one from the other--? LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Luther H. Hodges, Sr., interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 vice-president. But I had already announced through the state that I was going to be for Johnson and hoped the delegation would be for him. Actually, we got more than thirty out of forty votes
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Massachusetts, up in his Boston office, and a fellow by the name of Eddie Ford, who was very close to the Kennedys . I said, "I've got to locate Jack Kennedy ." Bob had Kennedy's schedule for the day . The best place to LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : highway engineer and the District Engineer. a Brigadier General. that if I coul~get that freeway design straightened out. and God knows he had little hope that I could pull it off--ttI'11 give you the savings in cost between the two freeways, the curved
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be undependable for Mr. Roosevelt. It seemed to Williams so much more important to have Johnson in the Youth Administration than to have him a member of a captive delegation in Congress that Williams hoped somehow Mr. Roosevelt would get a message down to Johnson
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • went in, and I think that \
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • days, how did you decide an editorial policy? K: Well, the editor in those days was first Herbert Elliston, then he died and then Bob Estabrook succeeded with the title of chief editorial writer or editor of the editorial page. Graham was not active
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . G: Has Neil Sheehan seen you about him? M: No, he hasn't. I know he's writing a book. G: Has been for eight or nine years, I think. M: Yes. G: Okay. M: Neil came down our way a number of times. Bob Kaiser--he may have come down
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , there's an easy answer to that. I doubt if Douglas made it, because Douglas never looked good in his debates with Kerr. Douglas was a great economist, but when he got into the rough and tumble with a man like Bob Kerr, who was kind of an alley fighter
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 21 (XXI), 1/7/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And the funny part of it is that on the way in, two or three people--Bob Komer and a couple of others from the State Department--had warned him that he wasn't going to get the demonstrations from the 19 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rostow -- II -- 12 famous report that I hope gets cleared, maybe it is cleared, a brilliantly contrived-constructed poll of the South, done, collected
Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . The people who come from the universities, that are connected with the universities, or who are thought to be intellectuals . John Gardner was there, Bob Wood from HUD, who had come from M .I .T ., I was there, Alain Enthoven was there, Bill Gorham
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 2 (II), 5/31/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • hoping some Cuban agent would shoot Castro and make Castroism definitively a failure. discussed with me. But that was not LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- I -- 23 rarely got in. The Secretary of the Treasury had a little easier access, and Dean Rusk got in any time he wanted to, and Bob McNamara got in any time he wanted
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of arrogant with me about my friendship with Clint, Jr. and Bob Thompson [?]. He was always leery, I suppose ever since he got that letter, of big fat cats trying to tell him how to run his business. He was skeptical of them. G: The suggestion
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • I know. I don't know any details. G: Did he complain about having to wear it? W: Yes, sure did. (Laughter) I can remember that [inaudible]. G: What did he say? W: Well, he hoped he didn't have to keep it on very much longer or something like
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • . Then [James] Murray and [John] Dingell were added, so it became the Wagner-Murray-Dingell [bill], but it was Bob Wagner, who I knew very well, who had introduced this. Now, Roosevelt left it out at the suggestion of Harry Hopkins. But Roosevelt was a great
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know Bob Albright of the Washington Post?" Now he had a separate section there where the editorials are all printed called the "Outlook." So he called up Albright and told him what Lyndon had done and quoted me. don't worry about that. My name
Oral history transcript, John B. Connally, interview 2 (II), 11/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --fellows like Dave Smith and Bob Heller and Stuart Long were our newscasters. Stuart had worked for KTBC. So yes, we did get certainly some of his people, and a great many of us had at one time or another had some connection with him, either at the radio
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • out of context. I had some conununications with Bob McNamara in regard to what the.Services were or were not buying that the Republicans got hold of--it was a simple, dramatic kind of thing that farmers are very sensitive about, and I came under
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Development] by that time, I can't remember when HUD came into existence. B: I think it was later than that. A: Abe Shays would meet with us sometimes, not too often. He was then at Harvard. Bob Wallace, who was assistant secretary of treasury, met with us
Oral history transcript, W. Ervin James, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • against him. M: Was Mr. Johnson moving to the right in his political philosophy? G: We hoped so. We felt considerably helped by his support of the depletion allowance program that the oil people were just beginning to enjoy and, of course, our
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the three of us. Bob Turnel', who actually beca~e Tfti s \llaS an assistant director; John Lewis, viho later became a member of the Councn of Economic I\dvisers and then later head of the JHD miss-ion in India, arid myself. l\nd ~;o TtH'ner, Lewi s
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Richardson's. Do you know him? B: I know of him. You mean the Fort Worth millionaire? W: He was a self-made, not millionaire, billionaire. that was the first billionaire he'd ever known. Bob Anderson told me But anyway, Sid had a place down off Aransas
Oral history transcript, Homer E. Dean, interview 1 (I), 1/12/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , with Joseph Barr, who was mayor of Pittsburgh. I certainly met not with Bob Wagner, but with [Paul ] Screvane and Ann Roberts in New York. I also met with John Collins in Boston. Before the act went through, we were down talking to folks in Georgia
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • simple layout; but I remember going around and around in those corridor s, and it ,vas just devastating. I couldn't find anybody or anything. He said to me, "I want you to meet a couple of people," and sent me down to meet Bob Kintner, and a couple
Oral history transcript, Samuel T. Williams, interview 2 (II), 3/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stanley Karnow, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • intelligent, and I got to know him very well. Rightly or wrongly, I introduced him to some of my colleagues and soon he became something of a celebrity. Particularly I remember Joe Alsop went down to see him and began to write about him as the great hope
Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 2 (II), 4/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it was a hardship and presented some personal difficulties but he hoped that she and I would accept that and carry on the job. M: He must have had certain sensitivity to the feelings of the wives and other members of the families. F: Oh, he not only had
Oral history transcript, William C. Trueheart, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the only people that would be hurt would be the non-VC, because you could be sure the VC would get any food that was around to be eaten, and that you were simply going to be alienating the people that you were hoping to have on your side. With no better