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Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 3 (III), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • everywhere, doing everything, has been terribly effective; and he has been terribly popular. B: I hope this isn't rude. Was there ever a possibility that Ernest Goldstein was under consideration for that post? G: I don't know. Some people had suggested
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • how you came to Shriver's attention for this pos it i on? R: I think from many sources. I don't think it was one. Shriver's bias, I think, was clearly in the direction of getting a medical person, and certainly Bob Cooke, because we were fellow
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the role we visualized for this. No one could have hoped that it would become quite as meaningful as it did. We also, before we ever left Washington for these meetings, had caucused among ourselves and decided the man we wanted to have as chairman
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the two main factors. After the presentation he said something to this effect--that he hoped all the Cabinet members and their Deputies would stay and see it through. He also knew that some for personal or other reasons might have to make other
  • administrations; agricultural legislation; Freeman’s “report and review” sessions; 1965 Food and Agriculture Act; BOB; price support program; Farm Bureau; Food for Peace Program (PL480); India; self-help feature; aid to Latin America; AID mission; relationship
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • forget it--with Truman and Mr. Rayburn and Mr. Johnson and Senator [Bob] Kerr. Nixon. There were others there. And the discussion was about I'll never forget how strongly those people felt about Nixon. G: Is that right? S: I remember vividly Mr
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • will be . F: Did congressmen ever come up to listen to you? M: We'd have some of the members come and sit in the audience . F: M: Did . you. find out what they were thinking? I heard two or three of them say, "Well, I hope they never decide to run against
Oral history transcript, Guy S. Meloy III, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lindley Beckworth, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • was there as a debate coach . I worked hard in the state legislature . be on the appropriations committee . I was very fortunate to The present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bob Calvert, Justice Calvert, came through Gilmer in about the month of August running
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 3 (III), 8/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was purely by chance. Helen Bird, as the daughter of an Episcopal minister, could, I'm sure, get a very favorable rate there. I don't know what they did for daughters of ministers; I hope to heavens they let them in free. The tuition, however, was fairly high
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Before looking at ~ take on Senator He had talked with Ike, with Bob Anderson, with Congress and .- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • might be able to do it today. You've got Bob Eckhardt and Henry Gonzalez, who by the way, is also about to fallout with the liberals too, who can pretty well represent a state like Texas and be friendly with the liberals. Now, to get back to your
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • get the idea of using the teleprompter? Were other politicians using it? A: No. I think Bob Fleming may have led him into this. Bob Fleming had seen this being used in the television environment, which was very common in that environment. The actors
Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 1 (I), 3/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ~- Bob Glass, and I wrote a book called Intelligence Is for Commanders. It sold pretty well; it's long since out of print now, but it sold pretty well. It was conceived to be a classic textbook on the rudi- ments of intelligence. From there, I went
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 2 (II), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and in some cities there hasn't been some fairly substantial and sound programmatic thinking and variation, but the fact of the matter is there has never been as much as might have been imagined or hoped for . G: Has the theory that the poor themselves
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • can't recall this man's name? L: Oh, I'm trying to think of it, and again 1'11-- G: It wasn't Robert York? L: No, no, Bob York. is his name? No, I know him well. No. This was--oh, my God, what His wife was there and I went to dinner
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the White House and the NSC who later were major figures in--Robert Komer I knew slightly, partly because I shared an office with Bob in the Executive Office Building after I was assigned to the NSC, a little cubbyhole closet next to his office. MG: Can you
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 3 (III), 2/27/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is likely to be cut o ff, so they're pret ty car e f ul abou t i t . F: Did you go over the list of a c c r ed i te d Wh ite House p e op le and a p prove, disap­ pr ove , or how is t hat handle d? C: No , I le t Bob F leming ha nd le it whe n he
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Well, no, I mean--I'm sorry. I still didn't relish the idea of getting the two of them together at that particular point in Chasen's restaurant. And I was hoping to hell Nixon would get out of there, which he finally did. I remember as Nixon walked
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 26 (XXVI), 11/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • superbly. Have you got the precise text, did somebody record it, I hope? G: Yes. R: The timing of it was incredible. He talked about, "this man from this state, I won't tell you what it is, but it's not very far from here." And how he left this state
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: It operated only in the Cuban--? R: Only in the Cuban missile crisis. M: There was not a regular smaller-than-the-NSC group under Kennedy? R: No. President Kennedy frequently would meet with, say, Bob McNamara and myself on a particular
Oral history transcript, Marjorie A. Delafield, interview 1 (I), 11/9/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • long and pleasant talks in between our "business" visits. PB: About what? MD: Mainly about President Johnson and about her hopes of the future for him. Of course, we were wishing for him to become President of the United States. PB: At that time
  • Work with Rebekah Baines Johnson on the Johnson family genealogy; Mrs. Johnson's hope for her son
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 6 (VI), 3/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know. But in Alabama if you hoped to be reelected you didn't incur the wrath of the Baptists. The Baptists--immediately when it came out that we were sponsoring this sort of thing, they immediately drafted a letter, which was a good letter
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , or what they hoped it would accomplish? V: In the Pleiku decision? M: Yes, at the time they started. V: Well, at the time the decision was made to bomb in retaliation for Pleiku, I don't think that it was generally understood that you were going
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , always discussed his problems with Mrs. Johnson, and tried to be as honest as I could but always with the hope that I think any good physician should translate to his patients. I did discuss with her after the Charlottesville attack that this obviously
Oral history transcript, Mary Rather, interview 6 (VI), 9/17/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • could that year in Austin when he could get away from Congress, because he was hoping not to have a campaign. And he spent a lot of time, as much time as he could at least, not only in Austin but going to other towns in his district. Not to have
Oral history transcript, David E. McGiffert, interview 2 (II), 5/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • take the average colonel or lieutenant colonel in the army, you probably find him saying, "Gee, I don't like war. I wish this war were over, but I sort of hope it isn't over until I have my chance to get over there." Because having served in a command
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and I want very much to be your congressman. I hope you will listen to me and decide you like me," or something like that. Unfortunately, and I'll always be sorry about this, I did not go along with him on any of these. Actually, I think at that time
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of South Vietnam--I never could say that man's name--again hoping that that was going to move the whole process forward. I think the amount of time he put into like the briefing with Nixon and briefings 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , which was North Vietnam. We did not recommend it in 1961, hoping that we could settle the issue of aggression within the confines of South Vietnam without going to the North. However, by the time I got there as Ambassador, following a disastrous
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 2 (II), 5/2/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • take that into You cannot forever fight the will of the people. I hope that people are not regretting nmv that we are a state. M: Senator, we had also discussed other subjects. We had brought it through Kennedy's assassination and also discussed Mr
Oral history transcript, Percy Brigham, interview 01 (I), 4/1965, by Eric F. Goldman (Item)
  • . When Sam died, Lyndon came and paid every penny of it off. G: Mr. Brigham, you have been very helpful to me. I appreciate this very much and I certainly hope you feel better, sir. B: Thank you. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , two-thirds of the students are from Asia and one-third from the Unite d States. It's a full scholarship program and, incidentally, in greater demand than the Fulbright Scholarship. hope someday they'll call it the Johnson Scholarship. I If they can
Oral history transcript, Sim Gideon, interview 2 (II), 10/3/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • proud of this development-of the Lower Colorado River Authoirty. G: Well, we certainly hope he is, because we tried to make it a development of which anybody would be proud. many, many ways. He has had a major influence on it in He was a personal
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • for my radio and television work and then said, "Dr. Spock, I hope I prove worthy of your trust." (Laughter) I said, "Oh, President Johnson, of course you'll be worthy of my trust!" I mention this because I think this is part of what set me up
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 3 (III), 12/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and South Vietnam is much better than massive retaliation. I think the hope of people is that it would be possible to avoid involvement at all. P: Do you think that this has developed from our contact with or sort of retrospect on Vietnam and with the cost
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 30 (XXX), 3/22/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • pretty tart letters. Stuart Long, cynical and had some cutting phrases, but I think he kept some hope for Lyndon. I know that Walter Hall knew Lyndon would live to fight another day and that they would be side by side. G: A lot of the controversy
Oral history transcript, Edward Re, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , "Education lies at the heart of every nation's hopes and purposes. of our international relations." It must be at the heart This was a phrase that I think beautifully summarized the role of education, not only in domestic advancement, but also
  • Affairs Council; Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Activities; report “Beacon of Hope”; LBJ’s kindness; Budget cuts; international and national crises; Vietnam; International Education Act; appointment to U.S. Customs Court