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Oral history transcript, William F. McKee, interview 2 (II), 11/8/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

come to you, or other members of the news media? M: Oh, on many occasions because they understood the situation, and they were hopeful that I could give them information that would make a nice headline, which I refused to do. P: You held

Oral history transcript, Edwin W. Pauley, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

didn't see him to lobby. F: In 1956 at the convention there seems to have been a very faint hope that the convention might deadlock between Stevenson and Harriman and that Johnson might be offered as a compromise candidate. Were you aware of that? P

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of young men of my kind represented the future hope of the party, and that in the Senate an alliance between the West and the South had proved to be a necessary combination, political combination for the party; that in many ways LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at that time I wasn't taking politics very seriously. I was busy with my two little girls and getting back and forth to Texas, still hoping that we would be returning. M: Your husband had the reputation of very courtly manners, and Lyndon Johnson had

Oral history transcript, Everett McKinley Dirksen, interview 3 (III), 7/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with the Democrats, too? D: Exactly. And we'd bring them in here from time to time and sit around the table and see what areas of agreement we could fashion with which we could stand up in the Senate and advance as best we could in the hope that there would

Oral history transcript, Peter Hurd, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Elizabeth Kaderli (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 HURD -- I -- 2 of President Johnson, I hope you'll consider Peter Hurd. Because

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of their questions . F: Did he have any opportunity to show any grasp of Venezuelan and Latin American affairs? B: No, not at that time . it . There just wasn't enough time to get into I think he did just what we were hoping he would do--more or less broke

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 5 (V), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

position and cases where, rather in contrast, the foreign minister was calling the shots and the ambassador was nothing but a front man. But there was no unified support at all that we could hope for from Latin America. About the best that we could hope

Oral history transcript, Keith Waller, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

guidelines that two of the administrations have laid down, and the flow of the American capital has continued. I hope it will go on continuing. F: Has there been ever really a strong movement for the Australians to limit the amount of capital that coul d

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 5 (V), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 6 M: I hope it is G: It i s ~ helpful~ I nd eed ~ [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview V] 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, Ernest May, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. And there was a great deal of bitterness. I was surprised. I had been in Europe for two or three years, and I was surprised when I came home to find how much bitterness there was among these people. All of them had been good friends of mine and I hope continued

Oral history transcript, Warren Christopher, interview 3 (III), 12/2/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. It was intended to be a healing meeting--a meeting that sought to reassure through this group the Negroes and other minorities of the country that this should not be a cause for violence or a loss of hope . B: It did include representatives from beyond just

Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

this relationship . I suppose he was hoping that I would do something to do that, and I did try . have any effect at all . But, no, I didn't I hadn't made any public statements that I agreed with Senator Fulbright. Although he's a good friend of mine

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of an obtuseness and innocence? W: No, there's a kind of hope that things would be like they were when their daddies were running these companies. When the word conservationist or environmentalist was raised, in their minds immediately they thought about

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Suspending the investment tax credit would, we hoped, slow down capital expenditures. And then holding back and reducing the amount of federal borrowing that went on in the market, all of this designed to hold down interest rates and capital expenditures

Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 2 (II), 6/4/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

with these litter kits. I don't quite know. I hope they didn't turn into litter. Just to show you the absurdity of what it was, with all the best intentions in the world public relations gone awry without any substantive direction, the little litter bag

Oral history transcript, Sarah (Mrs. T. J. .) Taylor, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

of time in Karnack. went to school in Marshall, and then she went to school here. went to St. Mary's. She Then she Now I hope I'm telling this right; this is as well as I can [remember]. But she and Aunt Effie moved to Dallas, St. Mary's

Oral history transcript, Jerry Voorhis, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to those I can remember very well asking his advice and counsel about the legislation and my having gotten none of my bills passed. But I hoped to have some influence on other things that were done. M: I have read that Lyndon Johnson worked closely

Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: No, I didn't. I was delighted and very much touched when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Confirmations, and introduced me and made a remark that I have never forgotten. I hope I can quote it, that "Mrs. Hobby was the kind of woman you would

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was the leader of our party. I thought it would have a unifying effect on the party. I hoped that he might be able to make the trip from the ranch to Chicago to the airport, get complete protection there, fly by helicopter from the airport to the convention hall

Oral history transcript, Clyde O. Martz, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and experience and hope that they will stay for a reasonable period of time with the Division but recognizing that that kind of man is looking for experience and probably will move on to something else after four or five years. B: Do you find that your Division

Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 temporary thing, or did you assume you were signing on for a permanent job? M: No. I was hoping I was signing on for a more permanent job but realized the hazards. August 1st. Mr

Oral history transcript, Donald A. Williams, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

directly to do with the origins of that Act? W: Not that I am aware of. This Act was sponsored primarily by Congressmen Clifford Hope of Kansas in the House but received very strong support LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Drew Pearson, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

out hoping to be a diplomat. I wanted to have some part in foreign affairs because I felt this was terribly important. But I didn't have any money in those days and, also, career diplomats had to have money. So I got into newspaper business abroad

Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

. Diem wasn't too well known, he didn't have too much of a following in the country. and out and that sort of thing. And Hanoi hoped Held been exiled They hoped that by terrorism, subver- sion, propaganda, and intimidation that they could topple

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 3 (III), 7/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

thousand troops there, and when we suggested that they might want to consider more, oh, my Lord! They had a list as long as a man's hopes as to why they couldn't send any more. They finally did send an additional light division, some six thousand troops

Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

think that this is no condemnation that his basic philosophy. I suspect sometimes, you know, if I were an 18- year- old student today I might be marching in some of the confrontations. I hope I would be a peaceful con- fronter, but as one who spent

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

suppose the Kennedy Library hoping that when the Library was finally opened that they would then be able to borrow the desk from the Smithsonian perhaps. I guess what they didn't reckon with was Mr. Carter coming in and finding out about the desk

Oral history transcript, Norman S. Paul, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the things on the plane that the Air Force needed and the other things that the Navy needed, that you just had too much airplane, particularly for the Navy. Now, I hope and pray that the F-111 and its further developed models will be a good plane

Oral history transcript, J. Willis Hurst, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

on the Potomac, which was Kennedy's old yacht, as I recall. It just happened to be that my wife and I were in the car with the President. Mrs. Johnson had gone on with someone else. The chauffeur was an old friend that I had known since 1955. I became, I hope

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

arrange on Inaugural Day in our church--a thirty-minute service ahead of the actual Inaugural ceremony. It was a very simple and a very moving service, interdenominational and interfaith at his suggestion. He had hoped for this to be a very small service

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a project of that size- dam. And while we were there, we were also hoping that some of the effect would be to slough off and help the re-elec::ion of two senators: Moss of Utah and Gale McGee in Wyoming. F: Both of whom had hard races that year. C

Oral history transcript, Mary D. Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

too, although a much smaller program, has given youngsters new hope and opportunity. So, one can go on. These were programs that were by no means part of the tide of the times. It took creative, imaginative leadership, and I think President

Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

is not willing to put a sales representative down there, as far as we're concerned they're not worth the amount of time we have to put in to make it go; and we hope the next show they will be willing. Our work with the show takes two years to prepare

Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 2 (II), 1/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

of 1967, while we didn't get everything we had hoped for from the Congress, really was the nation's first major effort to come to grips with air pollution. The Educational Opportunity Act of last year is a major one; the JOBS Program and the National

Oral history transcript, John Sparkman, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

there had been Some hope that your position on the ticket might appease some of the Southerners who were at least on the fence regarding the Democratic party. Texas then broke away from the party. Allan Shivers from Do you recall what Lyndon Johnson

Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 4 (IV), 5/27/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the effects of this interaction on the American public and, consequently, on national policy. These phenomena are going to occupy the attention of sociologists, historians, politicians and, I hope, military career officers for a long, long time-as indeed

Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

a ski resort where there wasn't one . B: Yes . So we are very much interested in the tribes' developing and being owner of these resources, and we hope they can attract more and more � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, went to see a man that he thought could and would help him. I think maybe it was Mr. [E. S.] Fentress; I can't say for sure. He walked in, began giving him the best sales talk he was capable of, his qualifications, what he hoped to do with the job if he

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

of this personally. B: What was his reply to that, sir? M: He stated that he recognized we had problems and various different parts of the country had different problems to cope with, and that he would hope that we could work out our differences and that we could